"Senior Officer's Sword Of The Republican Guard Model 1849 - France - XIXth Century"
EPEE of senior officer of the Republican Guard model 1849France
19th century
Steel, bronze, horn
Length: 100 cm T: 100 ; Length. Blade: 84 cm
Pommel with lictor beam, masonic handshake represented three times.
Brown horn fuse, watermark missing.
Keyboard en suite, with six flags, surrounded by a branch of oak and laurel.
Counter keyboard chased with a shell.
Blade with throat.
"Only a few examples of this type of sword are known" (Les épées portées en France des origines à nos jours, Jean Lhoste, éditions du Portail)
Ref : 3209
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