SWORD KNOWN AS A "BRIQUET" OF A NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD, First Empire - Restoration. Item number 33468
Single-piece brass hilt with a single-branch guard. Twisted handle. Slightly curved blade with hollow facets, engraved and gilded with military and floral trophies on a blued background on its first third, length 61.2 cm. Black varnished leather scabbard with two brass fittings decorated with lines, chape with a button representing a flaming bomb, scabbard tip with a brass chape.
France.
First Empire - Restoration.
In good condition, usual oxidation on the blade, later scabbard.
Reference :
33468