Original British East India Company Named Pattern 1796 Naval Officer Saber by Osborn & Gunby - Circa 1810 British Documents & Books and F 1 on the

and F 1 on the bottom

with the leather having dried out over the decades

Colonel and battalion commander (1943)

The carbine bayonet

Original British East India Company Named Pattern 1796 Naval Officer Saber by Osborn & Gunby - Circa 1810 British Documents & Books and F 1 on theOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a stunning named example of a Presentation British Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Officers Saber for a Naval Colonel in the East India Company, complete with its snake skin scabbard. The saber was manufactured by one of its originators, Henry Osborn, and is clearly marked on the blade: OSBORN & GUNBYSWORD CUTLERSTO HIS MAJESTYTHE HONORABLE BOARDOF ORDNANCE& THE HONORABLE EAST INDIA COMPANYBIRMINGHAM& PALL MALL LONDON