Sergiu, I think the closest I can come up with would be shown in Eduard Wagner's "Cut & Thrust Weapons" (Prague, 1967, plate 75, pp.366-67) which is a yataghan similar hilted and shown among the chapter on 'Austrian military swords'. It notes that these type yataghans were used by Serbian volunteer corps from around 1798, but these forces still part of Austrian auxiliary troops as late as 1848. They apparantly wore Serbo-Croat or Transylvanian attire and as mentioned, these forces evolved from Pandur units mid 18th century which served for the armies of Maria Theresa.
These of course would be part of the Grenz military you mentioned. It is hard to place what type pallasche the blade is from, but presumably one of the heavy cavalry officers swords of beginning 19th century, which have a similar hollow ground fuller but this block type ricasso seems unusual.
As mentioned there were units of these forces developed for Napoleon using men from these regions but officers which were from France and varying European allies. I have seen interesting European made yataghan blades of heavy cavalry length and European made with 18th century hirschfanger staghorn hilts, which suggest officers of these units. It seems quite plausible that a regulation blade would have been mounted for an officer of these units in this manner.
The forces of Baron von Trenck well established the use of 'oriental' appearance and weapons by West Europeans as well as the Balkan and East European components of these auxiliary troops. They were armed with both Euopean style 'couteau de chasse' as well as yataghans, and hybrid weapons were not at all unusual.
For further research I would suggest to those interested (though I dont have these titles, but can likely be found through interlibrary services, I did find Dolleczek that way once):
"Monographies der k.u.k. Osterr-Ungar Blanken und Handfeuer Waffen"
Anton Dolleczek , Vienna, 1896
"Die Osterreische Armee von 1700 bis 1867"
Ridolf von Ottenfeld & Oscar Teuber , Vienna, 1895
All the best,
Jim
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