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INFANTRY SAPPER SABER BY MANCEAUX IN PARIS, First Empire - Restoration. 27989

INFANTRY SAPPER SABER BY MANCEAUX IN PARIS, First Empire - Restoration. 27989

Cast brass frame. Cruise with two rolling quillons bent downwards, with chape cover. One-piece handle with eighteen strands ending in a pommel in the shape of a rooster's head. Mirror polished blade, straight with hollow sides L 66.6 cm, width at the heel 5.1 cm. Wooden scabbard covered in black patent leather with two brass fittings, cap with button for wearing on the belt or on the harness signed on the back "MANCEAUX Paris", bouterolle cut into a festoon with a brass dart.

France.
First Empire - Restoration.
Very good condition, leather seam on the back of the sheath unstitched in the lower part for 7 cm but without tears.

NOTE :
This rare saber is reproduced in the work of Christian ARIÈS: French military blade weapons, 2nd fascicle, 1970, n° 3.

BIOGRAPHY :
MANCEAUX Joseph François, former head of bladed weapons manufacturing at the Versailles Manufacture; he set up as a furrier in Paris (in 1806?); became the great thief of the time; patented for swords with a folding counter-keyboard (patent of May 10, 1819), although a similar system was already used at the end of the 18th century, on luxury and court swords, with a hinge. He directed the Klingenthal depot under the Empire, then the blade depot of the Royal Klingenthal Manufacture. 5, rue des Grands Augustins; 3, rue Lenoir Saint-Honoré, near the cloth hall (1823); 27, quai de la Cité (1830) and 27, quai Napoléon (1840).
Price : 2 600,00 €
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