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Lot 38

A 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry Officer's Sabre
By Osborn, Late 18th Century

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

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A 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry Officer's Sabre
By Osborn, Late 18th Century

With broad curved fullered blade in fine condition, bright for over half its length and double-edged towards the point, the forte etched and gilt against a blued ground on one side with a mounted cavalryman and crowned 'GR' cypher beneath a baldachin, and on the other with a trophy of arms, pre-1801 royal arms and motto, and foliage involving a rocaille, the back etched with maker's name and 'Warranted', regulation steel stirrup hilt with faceted rounded pommel and back-piece in one, and ribbed leather-covered grip bound with twisted silver wire, in original steel scabbard with two split-rings for suspension (hilt and scabbard with some light pitting)
83 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 22 April 2009, lot 67

For more information regarding Henry Osborn, in partnership with John Gunby from about 1805, see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords..., 2001, pp. 189-90

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