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Staff officer’s sword.
See original version (French)
77
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Staff officer’s sword.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Staff officer’s sword.
Hilt with a chequered, blackened wooden shaft. Gilded brass mountings, single-bar guard adorned with a lion’s muzzle, hilt decorated with a shield bearing a Medusa’s head, set within a laurel wreath above a bundle of flags.
18th-century triangular blade, engraved one-third of the way up and marked on the heel ‘VIVE LE ROY’ (deliberately erased)
Leather scabbard with brass ferrule (the scabbard ring is missing)
A.B.E. (Oxidation) Circa 1810–1820.
Length: 90 cm
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint Cyr
See original version (French)
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