Sword of senior officer of the Republican Guard model 1849

France

nineteenth century

Steel, bronze, horn

Long. T: 100; Long. Blade: 84cm

Pommel with lictor beam, Masonic handshake represented three times.

Brown horn rocket, watermark missing.

Keyboard en suite, with six flags, surrounded by an oak and laurel branch.

Against keyboard chiseled with a shell.

Grooved blade.

"Only a few examples of this type of sword are known" (Swords worn in France from the origins to the present day, Jean Lhoste, Portail editions)

Ref. : 3209

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