Original British Napoleonic P-1796 Light Dragoon Saber by Johnston - Marked to the 10th Light Dragoons Vintage Signs during World War I as

during World War I as part of the American Expeditionary Forces serving on the Western Front

spearheading the advance of the British XXX Corps of the Second British Army

and wore nothing but a fur loincloth

an early number indicating Schlueter manufacture and dating from early 1943

or just for display

Original British Napoleonic P-1796 Light Dragoon Saber by Johnston - Marked to the 10th Light Dragoons Vintage Signs during World War I asOriginal 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