Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is a rare variant of a French model 1882 Infantry Officers sabre, with a reinforced steel hilt, and a toledo style sabre blade with a reinforced forte for enhanced parrying.
The toledo blade style features one wide central fuller flanked by two narrow fullers, and makes the edge thicker, preventing damage when parrying. It also makes swords that are very stiff for their weight.
This sword is short, and lightweight (590 grams, 91cm), and was thus likely a levy weight or piquet weight sword.
This sabre is a true sabre under both British definitions, having a curved blade, and French definitions, which go by hilt design.
It was made by Francois Backes and Francois Delacour in Paris.
This is a rare variant of a French model 1882 Infantry Officers sabre, with a reinforced steel hilt, and a toledo style sabre blade with a reinforced forte for enhanced parrying.
The toledo blade style features one wide central fuller flanked by two narrow fullers, and makes the edge thicker, preventing damage when parrying. It also makes swords that are very stiff for their weight.
This sword is short, and lightweight (590 grams, 91cm), and was thus likely a levy weight or piquet weight sword.
This sabre is a true sabre under both British definitions, having a curved blade, and French definitions, which go by hilt design.
It was made by Francois Backes and Francois Delacour in Paris.
