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Sword of an Officer of the King’s Bodyguard, 1814 model, wit…
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258
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Sword of an Officer of the King’s Bodyguard, 1814 model, wit…
See original version (French)
Voluntary lot
Description
Sword of an Officer of the King’s Bodyguard, 1814 model, with a lighter fitting. Hilt covered in sheepskin, with filigree. Lighter fitting, in chiselled, gilded brass. Pommel with a long tail. Four-pronged guard, featuring a shell bearing the Arms of France, oak and laurel leaves on a bundle of flags. Quillon cut in the shape of a fleur-de-lis. Fitted with a double-edged sword blade with two hollows, engraved, gilded and blued to one-third of its length, decorated with foliage and marked on one side ‘Manufacture de Klingenthal’ and on the other ‘Coulaux frères’. Leather scabbard with a triangular brass ferrule, chiselled and gilded. ABE (signs of wear, damage, losses and pinholes on the blade)
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ID: 88300164
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