Sabre revolver with pin, six shots, calibre 7... Lot 17

Sabre revolver with pin, six shots, calibre 7 mm Iron frame. Handle with plates of squared blackened wood stick. Guard with a branch. Round barrel. Cylinder plain. Hound with flat cheeks. Iron ramrod. Curved blade with counter-edge, hollow sides and gutter, finely engraved in the third of foliage and trophies. Iron scabbard with two bracelets and two rings. Iron sting. Length : 102 cmB .E. Patinated. Italy. Circa 1860-1870. This officer's revolver sword is sometimes called "model 1864" . It would have been developed by the Milanese harquebusier Carlo Maria Colombo in 1864, by adding a pinfire revolver on an Italian officer's saber model 1855. It should be noted that this model was also produced by Liège and French harquebusiers.