Brumaire Days" award saber. Brass mounting. Basane-covered handle with filigree. Half-tail cap. Single-branch hilt with medallion in the middle stamped with the "Boutet" bar, with two baguette-like aurillons with central ridge and quillon with curved scroll towards the tip, engraved "Manufacture A Versailles". Curved blade with flat back, counter-edge and hollow sides, engraved, gilded and blued in thirds, decorated with foliage wreaths, trophies and a hussar charging on both sides. Single-crevice leather whip. Chappe engraved "Le 1er Consul au Cen Theurey journée de Saint Cloud" and long bouterole linked by two reinforcement splints, two pitons and two brass rings. Partially period reassembly. Later scabbard, manufacture, clip and attribution. As is.

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