Army gendarmerie sabre, model of the Year IX

France

19th century

Steel, iron, leather, copper

Long. total: 111; Long. blade: 96 cm

Iron frame.

Domed rivet button cap, very short tail, edge cut in an ogee.

Handle covered with sheepskin, filigree with a copper wire twisted into thirteen turns.

Rounded joint arch with three secondary branches rounded at their base.

Oval tray marked “IR G68”.

Straight single-edged blade.

Sheet steel scabbard with two bail rings, asymmetrical lyre dart.

Ref.: 6240

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