Beschreibung:

A RARE SWISS SABRE Partly circa 1600 With long single-edged slightly curved blade double-edged towards the point, the guard of blackened iron, mainly of flat bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons terminating in separate cast gilt-brass lions' heads, large and small side-ring on the outside, arms, and on the inside, a saltire-shaped guard of slender round bars, set in the center of each quillon and side-ring with a small oval gilt-brass panel cast and chased with a Classical figure or scene in low relief within a pearled border, gilt-brass pommel cast and chased as a lion's head, and slightly curved wooden grip with gilt-copper ferrules and bound with twisted brass wire (gilding slightly rubbed throughout) 38¼in. (97.2cm.) blade