Senior cavalry officer's saber. Handle covered in chagrin with watermark. The hilt is multi-pronged, with an "N" motif under the crown adorned with a radiating star under the imperial crown. Flower-shaped quillon. Beautiful blade with flat back, gutter and hollow sides, gilded and blued in two thirds, engraved on the back with "Coulaux Frères Klingenthal", eagles and "Garde Impériale". Scabbard with two large gilded brass fittings decorated with helmets, jellyfish heads and caduceus, one hollow covered in shagreen. Sting decorated with lightning. B.E. Beautifully made in the late 20th century, in the taste of the Empire.