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Another sword just like it. Definitely looks like a specific model/pattern given the amount that are around once you start to look.
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Yeah, there's a bunch of them with small variations... another one is discussed
here. It's clearly (some derivative of?) the
French light cavalry sabre modèle An IX or
XI, or the hilt could be from an
F1 dress saber (though I can only find pictures of reproductions of those at the moment, and the blade in the OP seems too wide). In any case, the secondary "petit-Montmorency-style" fuller seems anomalous on these mounts and the main fuller usually extends all the way down.
Of course, the French Napoleonic models were copied a lot... The Prussian origin suggested by corrado26 seems plausible given the German inscription on his example, except I don't think I've ever seen a Prussian sword in these kinds of brass three-branch mounts. Maybe Bavarian? Swiss? Austrian? Who else spoke German around that time? }|:oP