Original British Napoleonic P-1796 Light Dragoon Saber with Scabbard marked to the 12th Light Dragoons German Edged Weapons Deutschland

Deutschland

Also visible are traces of a maker marking and the date 1939

Brett (14 January 1918)

There is some corrosion and finish loss on the zinc fittings

RIDABOCK & CO

Original British Napoleonic P-1796 Light Dragoon Saber with Scabbard marked to the 12th Light Dragoons German Edged Weapons DeutschlandOriginal Item: One of a Kind. Just received out of a very old Collection in England! This historic pattern of saber is quite remarkable! Napoleon Bonaparte himself complained about the design, opining that the "hatchet point", the broadening of the blade at the very front end, constituted an "inhumane" weapon because of the horrendous wounds it inflicted. We should point out that the Prussians, under General BLCHER adopted the Saber as well and for