Cuz I was a gud boy: Sabre d'Off. Cavalerie à la Chasseur.

Looks to be in pretty nice condition, as is. I would bet that it's going to be spectacular by the time you're done working your magic on it! Congrats on the purchase.

OH! That thing is horrible, send it to me, I'll take care of it for ya

Thank you all for the nice comments.

Last night I did a little research. Not very scientific, just some poking around on Google Images. I gave GI these search terms: Sabre d'Officier de Cavalerie à la Chasseur, which is the dominating label stuck on this type of sabre in France. Googles A.I. now thinks you're French and only gives you French sites. That is what you want if you want to be close to the source. Doing research on a German sabre I use German search terms or else I will get stuck with the usual Anglo - American sites and that does not get me far.
I counted 2 screens, that is a total 130 sabre images. 10 of these had this, lets call it Lancer type of blade. Given that I probably counted some double, it looks like a good guess that 1 in 10 sabres had this Lancer blade. I am off by a mile probably, but it seems like a lot really.
What also came up is that the type of blade was used with Lancers, Light Cavalry, Royal Guards, practically all over the mounted services.
 I found one Infantry Officers sabre in the style and that was an early type Italian Officers M1833.
Another thing to contemplate is the price. For a rather sober looking sabre, but according to the auction house 1 Empire, you may pay E3000 ex costs. Never mind that one has to take said house on its word and given that said house interest lays in selling at the highest price they can get away with. So, I would like to have said provenance in writing please and thank you.
Anyway, from here on prices only go up. Of course it is possible to score a 1 Empire sabre for E2000, but you'll have to be very lucky.
 So what I found during my couple of months saving for my sabre and sitting like a Heron watching the stream go by, is that for the fancy sabres from after the 1 Empire, depending on condition, prices start at E800, many have a price tag of around E1500 if they are from the Restoration period, while some others break through this ceiling and shoot up to E2000 and more. Also that many of them were made at Solingen and that these fancy sabres continued to be made well into the 1850's. Should one care about the latter?
If you want a fancy sabre of good to superb quality for a ,,reasonable'' price I would not care one bit really.
So in conclusion, you'll have to gather together about $1500 somehow to have a large pool of fancy sabres to choose from. I am well aware though that for a lot of forum members this is dream time and a far from realistic proposition.
I am just laying out the market. That's all.
Here are the images of the 10 sabres.


Number 208: Sold for E3200 in 2007. Probably 1 Empire. Even the auction house was nervous here.


This one sold for E980 at auction. The mouth piece seems to be missing, but that alone cannot be the reason for the low price.
It looks a okay to me.

This one sold for E1750 at auction. Must be Restoration then.


Sold for E1913 at auction.






Sabre de luxe.


This one was re-blued and re-gilded. Sold at auction as ,,in the style of '' for E1250.


Run of the mill Lancers sabre with the steel hilt.




Sabre de Lancier de la Garde Royale.