French saber, naval officer (officers and lecturers of the Naval Academy and naval infantry officers)

steel, bronze and brass gilt, leather; blade length 70 cm, overall length 83.2 cm.
France, regulation saber, after 1900.
Steel head, with centrally drawn armor and a dimpled groove. Shield-scabbard hilt, in gilded bronze; rear arm ending in a dolphin's head; basket-shaped, openwork shield, with an anchor and vine motif interwoven with a ship's rope. The rope also wraps the bail. Ebonite handle, notched; bronze head, oval, with long braid. Scabbard covered with black leather, with three gilded fittings: neck with a catch - mushroom in the form of a shell, with an applied admiralty anchor with a barb; middle fitting - plain riffle, with a bray; smooth viscera ending in a decorative spur.
Lit: "Les sabres portes L'armee française," pp. 294, 295.