OFFICER'S SWORD, First Empire. 28440
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OFFICER'S SWORD, First Empire. 28440
Gilded bronze frame. Keyboard decorated with a weapons trophy with breastplate, bundle of lictors, sword, all placed on a dragon. S-shaped guard branch decorated with laurel branches, florets, palmettes and foliage, ending in the upper part with a lion's head. Short-tailed pommel decorated with palmettes, lilies, acanthus leaves and a lion's head. Wooden rocket with mother-of-pearl plates, the front plate is very finely engraved with the initials “G M” with a radiant sun in wreaths of laurel leaves. Spindle splints in gilded brass stamped with oak leaves. Palmette ferrule. Gutter blade, length 78.3 cm, engraved and gilded with foliage on its first third with a blued background. Scarlet cloth tie. Black patent leather scabbard with two gilded brass fittings, cap decorated with branches of oak leaves and palm leaves.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, frame in very good condition and beautiful gilding intact, blade with oxidation from use, leather of the scabbard with chips and a formerly repaired fold, period bouterolle but changed.
Gilded bronze frame. Keyboard decorated with a weapons trophy with breastplate, bundle of lictors, sword, all placed on a dragon. S-shaped guard branch decorated with laurel branches, florets, palmettes and foliage, ending in the upper part with a lion's head. Short-tailed pommel decorated with palmettes, lilies, acanthus leaves and a lion's head. Wooden rocket with mother-of-pearl plates, the front plate is very finely engraved with the initials “G M” with a radiant sun in wreaths of laurel leaves. Spindle splints in gilded brass stamped with oak leaves. Palmette ferrule. Gutter blade, length 78.3 cm, engraved and gilded with foliage on its first third with a blued background. Scarlet cloth tie. Black patent leather scabbard with two gilded brass fittings, cap decorated with branches of oak leaves and palm leaves.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, frame in very good condition and beautiful gilding intact, blade with oxidation from use, leather of the scabbard with chips and a formerly repaired fold, period bouterolle but changed.
Reference :
28440
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