Pandur saber

[Jim McDougall]

Thank you for joining us here Waltie.
It would be great to see images of your sabre. From your description I would note here that the image of a 'pandour' on the blade indicates it is not a genuine pandour sword, but one with that motif placed commemoratively. These were typically for cavalry officers in Eastern Europe in the third quarter to latter 18th century. The original Pandour units were disbanded in the 1740s as they had become renegade in their auxiliary duties with Austrian forces.
Still their effectiveness was renowned and various armies began adding similar auxiliary forces to their standing units, often with considerable though more controlled use.
We cannot discuss values here, however we will be glad to add research comments and information here with photos when added, and perhaps offer other suggestions privately.

[Jim McDougall]

Kinda hope he comes back. This is a most interesting topic.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Kinda hope he comes back. This is a most interesting topic.

Perhaps you kinda frightened him .

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by fernando

Perhaps you kinda frightened him .

Oops! Guess that happens a lot

[kronckew]

OK, so we need a photo of a clarabelle

{i may have mispelled that tho}

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by kronckew

OK, so we need a photo of a clarabelle

{i may have mispelled that tho}

LOL!!!!

I have no earthly idea what this means, but good to see cartoon silliness anytime.

[kronckew]

clarabelle would be pronounced klarabela, or pretty near if you include the silent 'e' USA version which is normally pronounced in european languages.
of course the 'L' 'mistook' makes all the difference.

(people always leave off the 'e' in my surname which is pronounced (roughly) as krroonkeh with a soft short 'e' sound at the end, not kronk. the w is for my given name 'wayne' - i was "kroncke, w" for a long while in the military. computers don't like the comma in user names tho, and US military and US computers, as well as US residents generally have no idea what an umlaut is, so they leave it off.

regards,

Wayne Kröncke

p.s. - now that the OP thinks we are completely nuts, mebbe he'll post a picture of the carabelle, er, karabela.