cptbob
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Officers and senior NCOs of the 1st Uhlan Regiment and 2d Dragoon Regiment were authorized to carry a unique saber with an Eagle head on the pommel, a basket hilt and lozenge-shaped langets on the handguard. This is one of those sabers and was made by Carl Eickhorn. I have 2 sources that mention these and they give conflicting information on the differences between the sabers of the 2 Regiments. One source mentions that the saber of the 1st Uhlan Regiment also had langets on the backstrap, while the other says the two were identical but the 1st Uhlan was in gold (implying the 2nd Dragoon was silver). I think this saber fits both descriptions for the 1st Uhlan Regiment