SWORD. Corps general's sabre of the 1896 type, gilded brass mounting, synthetic fusee, watermark missing, pommel with flange and short tail decorated with foliage, shell guard with 4 branches with laurel leaves, quillon decorated with 4 silver stars, straight blade with hollow sides signed Coulaux in Klingenthal, nickel-plated iron scabbard with one ring. L: 105 cm, blade: 90 cm. Marks of oxidation. BE