Two New French Sabres.
Dec 23, 2014 16:17:32 GMT
Post by Uhlan on Dec 23, 2014 16:17:32 GMT
Let me begin with wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Two new French sabres.
I had some discussion with Dave Kelly and Pinotte, since I was not able to find them in l'Hoste.
Dave found out about the M1822 and Pinotte came up with the details.
First the M1822 Light Cavalry with the funny blade.
According to Dave this one is a heavely customised sabre and Pinotte filled in the details and I quote:
,, The first is evidently a private purchase LC officer sword 1822.
These blades were sometimes found with the older Napoleonic LC officer's An IX so it might be have belonged to a former officer who ''transferred'' his old blade into a new regulation model'', end quote.
There are no marks at all and it is another of those very clean ones. The handling is superb, much better than the regular M1822, because of its lighter blade, which by the way, is quite sharp. The scabbard is also almost blemish free and, very important, there was no fiddling with the peen.
The Pallash.
Again according to Pinotte this is an M1847 Zouave Officers sword and quite hard to find. Now, I did not go out to find it. It is more a case of the thing finding me instead. It has a kinda Gothic looking hilt, with clear Christian symbolism integrated, like the four little connected roundels one finds in churches of a certain age, forming a cross.
The hilt is made very well, with excellent detail in the roundel, with the Greek theme hand chased after the cast, with good, thick, mercury gild all over.
It is marked ,, Rulart a Paris'' and this outfit did a very good job.
The blade is of the Pallash type and is marked ,, B under crown'' and there is another poincon which I cannot read. The back of the blade is marked ,,Couleaux aine et cie Klingenthal''.
I compaired it with the M1854 blade I have laying around and found it to be 1.5" shorter and much lighter, though it is very sturdy and surely a good fighting blade with excellent temper and taper. It handles very well and it is very fast since it does not have the powerfull old Dragoon blade of old, which funtioned more like a lance. This one is more build for sword play.
The scabbard is very brown, which may be a left over from 1870 or later and has a slight bend which I am sure, I can bend back a little.
Again the peen is untouched.
Cheers!
Edit: The information given here for the so called Zouave Pallash is incorrect.
The correct designation of the sword and some insight into its restoration can be found here:
sbg-sword-forum.forums.net/thread/51829/french-regulation-superior-officer-sword
Cheers.
Two new French sabres.
I had some discussion with Dave Kelly and Pinotte, since I was not able to find them in l'Hoste.
Dave found out about the M1822 and Pinotte came up with the details.
First the M1822 Light Cavalry with the funny blade.
According to Dave this one is a heavely customised sabre and Pinotte filled in the details and I quote:
,, The first is evidently a private purchase LC officer sword 1822.
These blades were sometimes found with the older Napoleonic LC officer's An IX so it might be have belonged to a former officer who ''transferred'' his old blade into a new regulation model'', end quote.
There are no marks at all and it is another of those very clean ones. The handling is superb, much better than the regular M1822, because of its lighter blade, which by the way, is quite sharp. The scabbard is also almost blemish free and, very important, there was no fiddling with the peen.
The Pallash.
Again according to Pinotte this is an M1847 Zouave Officers sword and quite hard to find. Now, I did not go out to find it. It is more a case of the thing finding me instead. It has a kinda Gothic looking hilt, with clear Christian symbolism integrated, like the four little connected roundels one finds in churches of a certain age, forming a cross.
The hilt is made very well, with excellent detail in the roundel, with the Greek theme hand chased after the cast, with good, thick, mercury gild all over.
It is marked ,, Rulart a Paris'' and this outfit did a very good job.
The blade is of the Pallash type and is marked ,, B under crown'' and there is another poincon which I cannot read. The back of the blade is marked ,,Couleaux aine et cie Klingenthal''.
I compaired it with the M1854 blade I have laying around and found it to be 1.5" shorter and much lighter, though it is very sturdy and surely a good fighting blade with excellent temper and taper. It handles very well and it is very fast since it does not have the powerfull old Dragoon blade of old, which funtioned more like a lance. This one is more build for sword play.
The scabbard is very brown, which may be a left over from 1870 or later and has a slight bend which I am sure, I can bend back a little.
Again the peen is untouched.
Cheers!
Edit: The information given here for the so called Zouave Pallash is incorrect.
The correct designation of the sword and some insight into its restoration can be found here:
sbg-sword-forum.forums.net/thread/51829/french-regulation-superior-officer-sword
Cheers.