Ignatius HŐFELMAJER (1825-1889), Carbine of January insurgents, in scabbard

steel, silver, black horn, wood, leather; overall length in scabbard 98 cm, head length 82 cm.
Poland, Cracow, workshop of gunsmith and saber maker Ignacy Hofelmajer, 1860s or later.
Costume carbuncle; steel head, ground on both sides in three ridged furrows and wide armor; near the base engraved under the crown cartouche with the coats of arms of the Crown, Lithuania and Rus. Silver, cross-shaped stele with superimposed image of the Virgin Mary, as well as the Pobóg coat of arms, the arms ending in knobs. Handle in the shape of a bird's head, wooden, with horn lining. The scabbard is wooden, covered with chagrin (leather tanned "for lizard"), with decorative appliqués - two riffles with bracelets and fittings of the neck and viscera.
The heads of sabers produced by Hofelmajer's workshop were generally imported from Syria.