FRANCE, late 18th or early 19th century, from the Ancien Rég - Lot 155

FRANCE, late 18th or early 19th century, from the Ancien Régime to the First Empire Dragoon officer's saber, close to the 1784 model. Chased and gilded brass "battle" hilt with five branches, decorated with leaves, joined by a large openwork scallop shell, centered with a frieze of rings and highlighted with feathers. Counterguard with small shell and one small branch. Cross-shaped quillon. Oval cap pommel with very short tail, engraved with foliage. Ebony or blackened wood spindle with twisted gadroons and grooved profiles. Single-edged, flat-backed, straight blade with two wide hollow sides and counter-edged tip, partially engraved with foliage, crown, trophy and cartouche in gilding on an old blackened ground. Heel unsigned (Solingen?). With a later (foreign?), polished sheet-iron scabbard with three stamped brass fittings decorated with radiating gadroons and two rings. Blade length: 88.3 cm - Total length: cm. Wear, notably to the gilding and patina of the blade, scratches and a few knocks from use; crack to the spindle; old oxidation to the blade.