Magnate (nobleman) saber from Croatia

[serdar]

Originally Posted by Victrix

Wow, that’s a beautiful sword Serdar! Great blade and amazing effect with the stones like drops of blood or glinting snake eyes. The scaling effect on the back of the scabbard and the little snake at the chafe are interesting details. It looks more authentic and older than the magnate sabres I’ve seen from 19thC although surprising the velvet is so well preserved. In the Napoleonic era animal designs were popular in so called Empire style (e.g. chairs and tables with feet shaped like lion paws, griffin carvings), but this sword seems older than that and the snake theme has some other meaning than just a fashionable style.

Hy Victrix, thank you!
It sure is a very nice sword, i purchased it with thoughts of selling it, but i cant, it is magnificent in person.

I have another “magnate saber”, i will post it when i go to my house, it is allso very nice with old blade.

Velvet is indeed very well preserved, but it has been repaired, it doesent show on photos, mostly from upper side.

About snake, hmm i dont realy know, i had a shamshir in silver, whole scabbard was decorated like dragon scales, but blade was in a bad condition so i sold it.

Bigest mistery to me is a damage on the blade, to me it looks like some one fired a laser (yea i know it is imposible ) ) or a bullet and it scraped the blade, it needs to be seen in person to understand why i think that way.

It wasnt broken and then repaired, or something like that, but literary it looks like someone fired a projectile or (beam ) ) and scraped a blade. )

It is a mistery.