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			Just watch this setup. 
		
		
		
			The hilt dates from the Napoleonic period; the Bisch stamp denotes it was made at the Klingethal Manufacture, basically around 1812. Later its owner, most probably a Husard, had it repaired with a new blade, this time at Chatellerault in 1834. Pitty there is no scabbard. Fernando .  | 
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