WHITE WEAPONS. Light cavalry officer's sabre with gilt brass mounting, rounded and moulded hilt with palmette-shaped curved quillon and lower half-ears, pommel with short tail and "melon ribs" cap, squared ebony spindle, curved blade with hollow sides and counter-edge blued and gilded in thirds, engraved with foliage and trophies of arms, heel signed "ISB" which designates Ioannes SCHIMMELSBUCH in Solingen, brass scabbard with 2 moulded bracelets, asymmetrical brass sting. L: 96.5 cm, blade: 82.5 cm. 1st Empire period. Worn gilding. ABE