Hi Alan,
You rang?!!!
While military and regulation patterns arent necessarily ethnographic, they are very much associated and I think they bring some very pertinant perspective into our general studies.
What you have here appears to be a very nice example of an early 19th century British yeomanry officers sabre. These stirrup hilted sabres tended to follow the basic typology of the M1796 cavalry sabres, but typically there was a greater degree of variation in these volunteer cavalry swords. The gilded hilt and ribbed ivory grips were characteristic of these swords and the basic hilt form including langets are consistant with examples of c.1810-30's.
Schnitzler & Kirshbaum were of course Solingen smiths who produced many swords for Great Britain and had been in business since about 1787, so were well established as exporters by this time. While later swords were typically stamped with S & K , there was a trend of marking swords in cursive around the late 1820's through 30's in Solingen it would appear. This certainly was not exclusively the case, however there seem to be a considerable number of examples that reflect this feature.
Nicely patinated example...just the way I like em!!!!
Very nice!
Thanks for sharing this one Alan,
All the best,
Jim