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HOTEL DES VENTES GIRAUDEAU

162 - France, late Reign of Louis XVI (1774–1793) – Revolution (17…
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Estimate €80 - €120
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Description
France, late Reign of Louis XVI (1774–1793) – Revolution (1789–1795). Officer’s sabre with a swivel hilt. Cast brass mountings. Flat cap with a long tail and a diamond-shaped rivet button. Spigot and swivelling tang with guilloché and cut-out decoration. Quadrangular wooden grip entirely inlaid with a double copper filigree. The guard plate has guilloché and cut-out borders, finished with a small palmette. Brass ferrule. Blade with a light grey, mottled patina and traces of oxidation, slightly curved, with hollow sides and a flat back, and a dorsal fuller, decorated in the middle third with mottos in cartouches featuring geometric motifs painted in gold on a black background, partly faded, including ‘Vengeur’ on one side and ‘Vive …’ on the other. Blackened leather scabbard with a central dorsal seam and three brass fittings cut in a scalloped shape and decorated with line work, and two suspension rings. Pommel with a button; the suspension ring is missing. Traces of the mark "VACHE" stamped into the leather beneath the pommel. 84 cm (Blade 71 cm). (Wear and damage; two prongs of the guard plate fractured; the painted decoration on the rear third of the blade is later but original; the scabbard’s pommel opening is cut out; in fairly good condition).
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About the sale Nice militaria sale
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Auction time 07/04/2026 at 10:30 AM
Ref. : 0027227 - 44
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