This cavalry officer’s saber uses an eagle head pommel and white bone grip that look 1830 or so, along with a elaborated version of the three-branch guard that came into popularity with the introduction of the 1833 dragoon and 1839 topographical engineer sabers, and a flat-backed, curved, single-edged saber blade with single broad fuller that looks toward the 1840 patterns.

The broad eagle’s head has an open mouth with deeply curved beak, with feathers extending part way down the faceted backstrap. The white bone grip is carved with a shell/fan, crosshatching, and half-chevron bands. There is a ferrule next to the guard and one under the pommel decorated as a leafy collar for the eagle head.