Stjepan Gmaz's civil servants' dress sabre


after 1852 Steel, wood, brass, wax cloth, forging, casting, carving out 9.7 x 7.9 x 2.3 x 8.2 cm The wooden hilt with new mother-of-pearl cover ends with a brass lion's head with vignettes on the neck. The brass quillons are hooked in opposite directions. In the centre a catrouche with the Austrian coat of arms and Golden Fleece edges. The blade is steel, single-edged and with a fuller. On the front an etched decoration of arms trophies, Baroque vignettes and palmettes. The leather scabbard has fitments with ornaments and two rings for attaching to a belt. The sabre had belonged to lawyer Stjepan Gmaz, chairman of the High Court in Zagreb. Bought from M. Schotten in 1901. The sabre had belonged to lawyer Stjepan Gmaz, chairman of the High Court in Zagreb. Bought from M. Schotten in 1901. M. Sercer, Sablje, Zagreb, 1979; M. Sercer et al, Znamenja vlasti i casti u Hrvatskoj u 19. stoljecu, Zagreb, 1993, catalogue number 109. The catalogue description is partly taken from Marija Sercer, from the catalogue Znamenja vlasti i casti u Hrvatskoj u 19. stoljecu, Zagreb, 1993.




HPM/PMH-000973