Civil War Cavalry Officer saber.

[browningautorifle]

The guard is now facing backwards!

No, he has it exactly upside down. He needs to take it off and turn it over. To turn it backwards would have the funnel shape to the front. The guard is only half there anyway. Can't imagine what guard you've been looking at. Out of the hundreds of guys that looked at this, you're the only one to notice?

[Tudorp]

Actually, It was just slapped back together when I took that picture. The pummel wasn't peened back on yet, so easy flip which was done shortly after it was noticed. I would have made sure anyway before the pommel is peened. Easy mistake since that gaurd is broken off anyway. . But no worries, it has been corrected.

[armourer]

No, he has it exactly upside down. He needs to take it off and turn it over. To turn it backwards would have the funnel shape to the front. The guard is only half there anyway. Can't imagine what guard you've been looking at. Out of the hundreds of guys that looked at this, you're the only one to notice?

It is, or rather was, back to front!

The broken (missing) piece of the guard would have had a little hook on it that would have located in a little squared hole in the pommel (where the grip and the pommel meet). The round ball shaped fiinial sweeps down and is to the rear. In similar style to that shown here, though this is of course, a different pattern sabre.

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[browningautorifle]

back to front!

Nope.

[armourer]

Nope.

This a replica, though not a particularly good picture of the type of hit as it would have looked.

[browningautorifle]

I know...