W. H. Horstmann and Sons was a Philadelphia sword assembler. They were not engaged in making sword blades but they did their own brass parts such as guards, pommel caps and scabbard mounts.

Offered is a fine Model 1860 cavalry officer's saber assembled by Horstmann. The blade is a Weyerberg blade. The Weyersberg family were prominent swordmaker in Solingen. This blade is identified by the Kings head with a 5-point crown on the obverse, which is one of their marks. The blade is the short blade, 31 ½ inches in length. The width is 1 1/8 inches and the thickness is 5/16. The bade is etched with foliate, scrool, panoply of arms and foliate on both sides and the name, W.H. Horstmann and Son, Philadelphia, Pa. on the obverse. It has some dark spots near the tip caused by rust.

The hilt is a plain enlisted type with some decoration on the two-branch guard and the pommel. The grip is sharkskin covered with a two strand twisted brass wire that is slightly loose at the top. The scabbard is steel with plain wide brass mounts and drag.

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