AUCTION 50: ANTIQUE MILITARIA, FALL 2024

A FRENCH THIRD REPUBLIC PERIOD SHORTSWORD WITH MOTHER OF PEARL GRIP

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Start price: $200

Estimated price: $300 - $400

Buyer's premium:

Beautiful sword from the Third Republic period. Triangular blade with three hollow sides, polished and acid-etched. Chased and pierced cast bronze mounting. Symmetrical openwork guard plate, quillon arched forward with grape cluster decoration. Mother-of-pearl plates to be reattached. In its leather scabbard with two bronze fittings.

France, 19th Century.

L: 35 1/2 in., (90 cm.)

Condition: Very good overall. Top brass mount on the scabbard is slightly loose.