EDGED WEAPONS. FRANCE. Model 1829 mounted gunner's sabre with stamped brass single-branch hilt, watermarked basane-covered wooden spindle, curved scalloped blade signed by the Manufacture Impériale de Châtellerault, dated 1857, 2-ring iron scabbard, with buffalo strap (not to model). L: 95 cm, blade: 80.5 cm. ABE