Balp Fils

 One page from a French catalogue of fencing equipment. [1]

• a wooden sabre (beech), wire knuckle bow (15 francs); [2]
• a wooden sabre (beech), steel guard (18 francs);
• Radaelli type training sabre;
• Parise type training sabre, with wooden grip;
• Masiello type training sabre, wooden grip with a backstrap;
• Sestini type training sabre, wooden grip with a backstrap. [4]

  This French sword manufactured -- Balp Fils (Balp Jr.?) -- was established in 1830 at Saint-Étienne, and later was able to produced 5-6 thousand swords annually for different branches of the French armed forces and also civil administration. [3]

  Several blade markings can be found at different sword forums: B.F in an oval (French cavalry sword, ~1896), BF, between the letters there is a rapier hilt (probably an older version of Balp's marking).

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1. www.benjaminarms.com
2. Without a wire knuckle bow wooden sabre costed only 10 francs.
3. Littlegun.
4. Other types of Italian sabre hilts can be seen in this post.