INFANTRY SAPPER SABER, MODEL WITH EAGLE HEAD POMMEL, FIRST EMPIRE.
Brass hilt depicting an eagle head with a guard adorned with a rectangular molded relief of the Nemean lion's head. The straight guard ends on each side with a monster head from mythology.
Slightly curved blade with a single fuller, engraved on the spine with the Imperial Manufacture of Klingenthal Coulaux Frères. It bears the inspector stamp of C. MARION, from December 1808 to June 1811, and the 1st class controller stamp of J.G. BICK, from February 1809 to July 1818. Blade length 68.2 cm, width at the base 3.7 cm, spine thickness 0.8 cm.
Black varnished leather scabbard with two large brass fittings decorated with simple lines on the chape, chape button for belt wearing.
Very good condition.
France.
First Empire. Old scabbard leather, fittings replaced at the end of the 19th century.
Reference :
6454