"Sword Of The School Of Mines. Rocket With Grooved Nacre."
Sword of the Ecole des Mines. Rocket flare with grooved mother-of-pearl. Frame in carved brass, gilded. Pommel lacrosse head woman. Keep a branch. Keyboard adorned with two pikes crossed Miner, surrounded by helmets, heads of lions. Blade straight, with flat back and half-hipped and then two-edged; engraved, gilded and blued to the third. Leather scabbard with two large cut brass fittings, decorated with the line. BE Louis Philippe period. (1830 - 1848)