Sabel
Army Museum

Sabel

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Army Museum

Group D II. The saber can be most closely regarded as a variant of the officer’s saber m/1859.Klingan is slightly curved, has reinforced back and small heel. At the top, the usual etched snake, from which on both sides the Swedish national coat of arms and the north star in the beam gloss. On the outside stands “The King” and on the inside “The Land of Fathers,” both inscriptions surrounded by an ornamental frame. At the top of the inside is a crowned shield with a run-like figure, like a Solingen firm’s factory brand. The fort is of gilded brass. The chafer is dressed with fish skins and around it go six ribs, in which a couple of two parties together inserted fine brass wires are attached. Both threads are twisted in the same direction. At the rear, the cavity has a spine, which is at the top in a rounded coat. The latter was adorned with engraving and has at the very front a square elevation. A ring-like, smooth, approximately 8 mm wide brace is attached to the bottom of the cavity and the spine. The outer part of the plate is the right large and upward weight, but its interior is small and downweight. The former is broken and on the outside, but not on the inside, adorned with ciselled, stylized leaf and flower ornaments. The inner part is neither broken through nor ornate. The free part of the parerpole has a square cross section, is at the rear bent down and is closed by one on the sides with a spiral ornament adorned button. To the front, the parerpole becomes quite wide and is marked on the lower side of the parerplate, but not on its upper side. Framtlll passes the pair plate and the pair bar in the handrail, which has oval cross section and which along the front edge, but small to the outside, is adorned with a recessed stripe. At the top, the handhouse is split in two parts, which hit the coat on each side of the previously unspoken square elevation. These branches are at the top adorned with ciselled ornaments on the sides. On the underside of the rear part of the parerpole stands “MORELL & Cni” The associated number is AM.042746-AM.042747, saber, pods, AM.042903 portepé.

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