SABRE OF THE GENDARMES OF THE ROYAL MILITARY HOUSE, model 1762, Old Monarchy (1762-1787).
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GENDARMES DE LA MAISON MILITAIRE DU ROI SABER, model 1762, Former Monarchy (1762-1787).
Brass hilt cast and gilded with pierced shell, hilt with coverplate, shell thumb ring and side guards, and a quillon in a crossguard. Wood grip entirely filigreed with silver. Metal ferrules stamped in braided patterns. Pommel decorated on each face with a palmette. Hilt height 15.4 cm.
Blade with a back, hollow ground and gutters, stamped with the "R" with the large crown of the Klingenthal Manufacture, a stamp established in 1756; it is engraved on both sides in a cartouche "GENDARMES DE LA GARDE DU ROY" in gold letters on a background, and near the heel of two crossed swords and a fleur de lys. Blade length 91.5 cm.
Black waxed leather scabbard with two gilded brass fittings, the chape is embellished with a palmette-shaped button (similar to the pommel) for wearing on the belt.
France.
Former Monarchy (1762-1787).
Perfect state of preservation, blade with very light oxidation from use for a weapon of this period.
PROVENANCE:
Former collection of Dr. Henri Polaillon was born in 1875 in Paris, the only son of a family of Lyon doctors and surgeons. His father, Benjamin Polaillon, was a surgeon at the hospitals of Paris, and a member of the Academy of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Paris, and the subject of his first thesis in 1901 reflects his interest in the natural sciences: "Contribution to the study of the natural and medical history of mosquitoes." He was also a full member of the Zoological Society of Paris in 1902. In 1910, he married Louise Mollier-Carroz, the granddaughter of Professor Félix Guyon, the famous founder of modern urology. After the Great War, he devoted himself entirely to his passion as a collector, as evidenced by his eclectic library: literature, botany, natural sciences, medicine, numismatics, and finally, weapons and mementos from the First Empire. "The kind and erudite collector that Dr. Polaillon was, whose opinions were authoritative in the field of edged weapons" (La Sabretache said), died in 1941.
Brass hilt cast and gilded with pierced shell, hilt with coverplate, shell thumb ring and side guards, and a quillon in a crossguard. Wood grip entirely filigreed with silver. Metal ferrules stamped in braided patterns. Pommel decorated on each face with a palmette. Hilt height 15.4 cm.
Blade with a back, hollow ground and gutters, stamped with the "R" with the large crown of the Klingenthal Manufacture, a stamp established in 1756; it is engraved on both sides in a cartouche "GENDARMES DE LA GARDE DU ROY" in gold letters on a background, and near the heel of two crossed swords and a fleur de lys. Blade length 91.5 cm.
Black waxed leather scabbard with two gilded brass fittings, the chape is embellished with a palmette-shaped button (similar to the pommel) for wearing on the belt.
France.
Former Monarchy (1762-1787).
Perfect state of preservation, blade with very light oxidation from use for a weapon of this period.
PROVENANCE:
Former collection of Dr. Henri Polaillon was born in 1875 in Paris, the only son of a family of Lyon doctors and surgeons. His father, Benjamin Polaillon, was a surgeon at the hospitals of Paris, and a member of the Academy of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Paris, and the subject of his first thesis in 1901 reflects his interest in the natural sciences: "Contribution to the study of the natural and medical history of mosquitoes." He was also a full member of the Zoological Society of Paris in 1902. In 1910, he married Louise Mollier-Carroz, the granddaughter of Professor Félix Guyon, the famous founder of modern urology. After the Great War, he devoted himself entirely to his passion as a collector, as evidenced by his eclectic library: literature, botany, natural sciences, medicine, numismatics, and finally, weapons and mementos from the First Empire. "The kind and erudite collector that Dr. Polaillon was, whose opinions were authoritative in the field of edged weapons" (La Sabretache said), died in 1941.
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