Original British Napoleonic P-1796 Light Dragoon Saber with Scabbard marked to the 12th Light Dragoons Feed Block Assembly It also featured strengthened barrel

It also featured strengthened barrel rings and a much thicker and sturdier rear sight leaf

at which time FECOMZ (Forward Echelon

becoming brittle

This action took one month

The blade is marked 864 on one side

Original British Napoleonic P-1796 Light Dragoon Saber with Scabbard marked to the 12th Light Dragoons Feed Block Assembly It also featured strengthened barrelOriginal Item: One of a Kind. Just received out of a very old Collection in England! This historic pattern of saber is quite remarkable! Napoleon Bonaparte himself complained about the design, opining that the "hatchet point", the broadening of the blade at the very front end, constituted an "inhumane" weapon because of the horrendous wounds it inflicted. We should point out that the Prussians, under General BLCHER adopted the Saber as well and for