Austro Hungarian Hussar Sabre

Product Description

• Blade Length: *7.5 inches Overall Length: *5.*5 inches Steel Used: ***0 High Carbon Spring Steel Household cavalry officers appear to have carried straight-bladed, basket hilted swords until the adoption of the ***6 ladder-hilted pattern. These appear to have been used by the 1st life guard, at least in some orders of dress, at least until ***7, but a new pattern was introduced, perhaps as early as ***5, carried at least by officers of the Royal Horse Guards. Sometimes (and perhaps erroneously) termed the ***4 pattern, it was a Prussian-style Pallasch with fullered straight blade and semi-basket hilt made of scroll-shaped bars with a panel bearing the royal crest (a crowned lion atop a large crown)