France, Revolution (1789-1795). - Lot 40

Lot n° 40
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France, Revolution (1789-1795). - Lot 40
France, Revolution (1789-1795). Ceremonial or dignitary sword (enigmatic model) related to the model of the swords of the Ecole de Mars. Handle with twelve rows of scales and ovoid pommel in melon rib with rivet button, disassociated from the blade tang. Rectangular gilded cast brass cruciform, bearing on one side, a four-faceted pointed prism on a sandblasted background and trapezoidal auricles, one of which decorated with a nine-stranded palmette on a sandblasted background. Straight white blade with small traces of oxidation rust flower in places, with two edges and median edge, the point in triangle in the extension of the edge. Scabbard built on the model of the scabbard of the swords of the School of March 1794, without rings of suspension and made up of wooden sheaths sheathed of sheet of gilded brass with two hollows, ending in a bouterolle stamped of a long palmette with seven strands on sanded bottom and a dart in half-moon fixed by screws, itself stamped of a palmette with nine strands on sanded bottom. One of the hollows is decorated with a pattern of two vertical winged thunderbolts. Simple rectangular capping. The original wooden handles were later lined with a strong red paper for one and a light beige silky cloth for the other. Blade 58,3 cm (71,8 cm with tang x width at heel 4,1 cm). Scabbard 56,7 cm. (patina of time, in its state of discovery, never in collection before, good condition). Note : Interesting sword, unfortunately incomplete, of revolutionary manufacture of very beautiful quality, undetermined model, of imagination, ceremony or dignitary.
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