Sabel
Army Museum

Sabel

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Army Museum

Group D II Possibly m/1859. The saber is very similar to the officer bar m/1859. The Klingan is one-nave, curved, has reinforced back and heel and is very similar to that of the officer’s bar m/1859, but is significantly narrower. At the top, it is adorned with etching, with both sides of Sweden’s national coat of arms and the north star in a beam gloss. On the outer side stands “The Land of Farms” and on the inner side “the king,” both inscriptions surrounded by ornamentsram.The fort is of gilded brass. Clothed with blackened fish skin, the chafer has 7 slippers, in which a pair of two parties together narrow gilded brass wires are attached. The two wires are twisted along the same way. At the rear, the cavity has a spine, which is at the top in a rounded coat. The latter is adorned with simple engraving. At the very front, the coat has a four-sided, with fine slippers adorned elevation. Around the bottom of the cavalry and the spine a ring-like, with two enclosed stripes adorned, about 7 mm wide, down further seizes. The surface area of the umbrella is quite large and upward weight, but the inner is small and downward weight. The former part is broken and on the outside, but not on the inside adorned with ciselled ornaments, with Karl XV’s crowned name cipher. The inner part is neither broken through nor untouched. The free part of the parerpole has a square cross section, is at the rear bent and ends in one side with an ornamented button. On the upper side at the back, the parerpole is adorned with a simple, ciselled ornament. To the front, the parerpole becomes right wide and is marked on the lower side of the parerplate, but not on its upper side. Around the nave there is a recessed area on the underside, adorned with engraved leaf and flower ornaments. At the front, the parerplate and the parerpole pass in the handrail, which has oval cross-section and which along the front edge, small to the outside, is adorned with a recessed stripe. At the top, the handloom is clustered in two branches, which are engraved on the sides and which hits the coat on each side of the talked about, with fine slippers adorned four-sided elevation. On the inner side of the parerpole button there is an oval, absolutely illegible stamp. The saber has been caged by the major etc. O.Baeckström, died 1923. Associated No is AM.39877-8

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