ORIENTAL STYLE CAVALRY OFFICER'S SABRE Mid 19th century Handle with blond horn plates, one riveting button and one eyelet for the strap. Brass mounting (traces of gilding), hilt with two pommels and two long straight quillons ending in an olive. Curved blade decorated in damascus style, engraved, with flat back, counter-edge and hollow sides, with cabalistic inscriptions, one of which forms the letters "JNB". Sheet iron scabbard with two wide bossed bracelets and two brass rings. With its olive tassel lanyard and braided red wire suspension. B.E. Origin : Former Napoleonic collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco (3rd sale, lot 184) An oriental style cavalry officer's sabre, from mid. of the 19th C.