FRANCE. Light cavalry sabre model 1822 called "bancal", brass mount stamped with the controllers, wooden fusee covered with basane (watermark missing), pommel with bead and short tail, 4-point hilt, curved blade with hollow sides and gutter from the royal manufacture of Châtellerault dated March 1839, iron scabbard with 2 rings. L: 114 cm, blade: 97.5 cm. Oxidation on the surface of the scabbard. ABE