Staff Officer’s Sword.
Staff Officer’s Sword.
Blackened, checkered wooden hilt. Gilded brass mountings; single-bar guard adorned with a lion’s muzzle; pommel decorated with a shield bearing a Medusa’s head, set within a laurel wreath atop a bundle of flags.
18th-century triangular blade, engraved one-third of the way up and marked on the heel “VIVE LE ROY” (deliberately erased)
Leather scabbard with a brass ferrule (the scabbard tip is missing)
A.B.E. (Oxidation) Circa 1810–1820.
Length: 90 cm
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint Cyr
Staff Officer’s Sword.
Blackened, checkered wooden hilt. Gilded brass mountings; single-bar guard adorned with a lion’s muzzle; pommel decorated with a shield bearing a Medusa’s head, set within a laurel wreath atop a bundle of flags.
18th-century triangular blade, engraved one-third of the way up and marked on the heel “VIVE LE ROY” (deliberately erased)
Leather scabbard with a brass ferrule (the scabbard tip is missing)
A.B.E. (Oxidation) Circa 1810–1820.
Length: 90 cm
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint Cyr
