Junior officer's sword of the Engineering Corps and Engineering Administration
France
Third Republic
Steel, horn, brass
Long. total: 101; Long. blade: 98 cm

Junior officer's sword of the Engineering Corps and the Engineering Administration, model of March 19, 1872, modified in 1884.
Olive-shaped pommel with rivet button.
Rocket made of brown horn.
Keyboard with an iron cuirass and a head-shaped pot.
Mobile counter-keyboard, put in place from 1887.
Blade with double groove and central ridge.
Felt tie.
Steel sheet sheath, suspension ring, lyre-shaped dart.

Ref.: 6781

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