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PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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OFFICER’S UNIFORM SWORD, Vendémiaire Year XII staff officer …
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332
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OFFICER’S UNIFORM SWORD, Vendémiaire Year XII staff officer …
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
OFFICER’S UNIFORM SWORD, Vendémiaire Year XII staff officer type.
Wooden hilt, watermark missing. Gilded and chiselled brass mountings, pommel featuring a plumed helmet, single-bar guard, body knot decorated with ancient trophies, straight quillons with leaf motifs.
Foliated half-shell. Flat-backed blade, engraved, gilded and blued to one-third of its length.
Length: 100 cm.
A.B.E. (Signs of wear). SF.
Note: the bivalve shell has been converted into a half-shell, which is less cumbersome to wear, and redecorated on the underside with a dotted pattern, in keeping with the period.
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
See original version (French)
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