Senior officer's sword, hunter's model, three-armed blued steel guard, engraved with gold foliage, engraved longtailed cap and partly gilded, the shuttle-shaped front muzzle is monogrammed in gold letters: "P A" surmounted by a county crown, a gold net surrounds the mumps, a rocket covered with filigree grey stingray; blade probably made of damask, with a round back and lateral groove, finished by a counter-edge ending in carp tongue, it is engraved with etching of foliage and trophies and gold on the first third; blued iron sheath with two iron belly bracelets engraved with foliage and golden flowers, shell-shaped stinger also in gilded iron, at the top, at the back, it bears an apocryphal signature: "Imple Manufacture in Versailles"; length 101.5 cm. (Patinated blue; retouched gilding). First Empire period. Very good condition.

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