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MARECHAL'S BATON OF THE EMPIRE OF MICHEL NEY, DUKE OF ELCHINGEN, PRINCE OF MOSKOWA. In wood covered with midnight-blue velvet, embroidered with a semiset of 32 eagles embroidered with thread, canetille and silver-gilded lamé, in four rows of eight eagles, Each side of the ends is covered with midnight-blue velvet en suite and embroidered with a wreath of laurel leaves in gilded canetille. Ornamented at both ends with gold rings, engraved on one "TERROR BELLI DECUS PACIS' (missing a small fastening rivet) and on the other "Michel Ney Nommé par L'Empereur Napoléon Maréchal de l'Empire le 12 Floréal An 12e" (missing three fastening rivets). (three rivets missing). Length: 480 mm. Diameter: 40 mm Both ferrules bear the gold hallmarks: - de titre 750 Paris, de moyenne garantie Paris (1798-1809) Dog or bear head hallmark 3 (unidentified) Traces of goldsmith's hallmark. A.B.E. First Empire period. (Worn inscriptions, velvet of the baton body changed later, due to the slightly different eagle embroidery pattern from the 1804 model). In its red morocco-covered heavy cardboard case, model 1804, decorated with a semiset of twenty-four imperial eagles, in six rows of four eagles each, and marked at both ends "LE MARECHAL MICHEL NEY", closing with three cut-out silver hooks. The sides are decorated with the Imperial Eagle on an enfouded spindle. The interior is lined with ivory silk and a moire drawstring. B.E. First Empire period (minor wear). Length: 495 mm. Diameter: 505 mm. -Accompanied by a lithograph of the Marshal by Villain. Provenance : -Collection of the Princes de la Moskowa. -Collection of M.Beaupère from 1961. A certificate of provenance will be attached. -Jean Louis Noisiez Collection. Related works: Of the 24 marshals of the Empire, only two First Empire-era batons are known to be in private hands: ours and that of Marshal Macdonald (Polaillon collection). The others are in French and foreign museums. Exhibitions : - "Exposition historique et militaire de la Révolution et de l'Empire", 1895, n°340, "Bâton du maréchal Ney". Then in the collections of the Prince de la Moskowa. - "Napoleon", exhibition at the Grand Palais, 1969; n°403, "Bâton du maréchal de l'Empire du maréchal Ney (1804)". The entry notes a different date of appointment from that of the other batons: 12th instead of 29th Floréal An XII. -This baton was listed in Jean Brunon's documentation.
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MARECHAL'S BATON OF THE EMPIRE OF MICHEL NEY, DUKE OF ELCHINGEN, PRINCE OF MOSKOWA. In wood covered with midnight-blue velvet, embroidered with a semiset of 32 eagles embroidered with thread, canetille and silver-gilded lamé, in four rows of eight eagles, Each side of the ends is covered with midnight-blue velvet en suite and embroidered with a wreath of laurel leaves in gilded canetille. Ornamented at both ends with gold rings, engraved on one "TERROR BELLI DECUS PACIS' (missing a small fastening rivet) and on the other "Michel Ney Nommé par L'Empereur Napoléon Maréchal de l'Empire le 12 Floréal An 12e" (missing three fastening rivets). (three rivets missing). Length: 480 mm. Diameter: 40 mm Both ferrules bear the gold hallmarks: - de titre 750 Paris, de moyenne garantie Paris (1798-1809) Dog or bear head hallmark 3 (unidentified) Traces of goldsmith's hallmark. A.B.E. First Empire period. (Worn inscriptions, velvet of the baton body changed later, due to the slightly different eagle embroidery pattern from the 1804 model). In its red morocco-covered heavy cardboard case, model 1804, decorated with a semiset of twenty-four imperial eagles, in six rows of four eagles each, and marked at both ends "LE MARECHAL MICHEL NEY", closing with three cut-out silver hooks. The sides are decorated with the Imperial Eagle on an enfouded spindle. The interior is lined with ivory silk and a moire drawstring. B.E. First Empire period (minor wear). Length: 495 mm. Diameter: 505 mm. -Accompanied by a lithograph of the Marshal by Villain. Provenance : -Collection of the Princes de la Moskowa. -Collection of M.Beaupère from 1961. A certificate of provenance will be attached. -Jean Louis Noisiez Collection. Related works: Of the 24 marshals of the Empire, only two First Empire-era batons are known to be in private hands: ours and that of Marshal Macdonald (Polaillon collection). The others are in French and foreign museums. Exhibitions : - "Exposition historique et militaire de la Révolution et de l'Empire", 1895, n°340, "Bâton du maréchal Ney". Then in the collections of the Prince de la Moskowa. - "Napoleon", exhibition at the Grand Palais, 1969; n°403, "Bâton du maréchal de l'Empire du maréchal Ney (1804)". The entry notes a different date of appointment from that of the other batons: 12th instead of 29th Floréal An XII. -This baton was listed in Jean Brunon's documentation.
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