King Charles I's saber

Lot 1006 limit € 120

Wire-wrapped grip, bird pommel, curved, openwork hand guard decorated with oak leaves, single-edged blade with fullers on both sides, on the back of the blade marked Carl Eickhorn Solingen, blade decoration: tendrils, the coat of arms of King Charles I and the Kingdom of Romania (from 1872, with motto Nihil Sine Deo or mirrored C and the Roman I.), Karl Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was proclaimed king of Romania in 1881, L approx. 97 cm, unchecked (originally a Prussian saber?), signs of age