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Thierry de Maigret

218 - Artillery officer’s saber, with a three-pronged chasseur-style guard in gilded brass, adorned with fillets; the third prong is broken and missing; the pommel has a long tail engraved with flowers and foliage; the chapeons are shuttle-shaped; the front one chiseled with two crossed cannons held together by a ribbon, with cannonballs below and laurel branches on either side, the other featuring a fleur-de-lis and a spiderweb; curved blade with a double edge and a counter-cut edge, carp-tongue tip, engraved, gilded, and blued one-third of the way up, signed on the heel: “S & K”; iron scabbard, two brass ring clasps, engraved and gilded in a continuous design on the front and, on the back, featuring a fleur-de-lis; length 106.5 cm. (Oxidation on the blade; the scabbard entry is missing).

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Estimation

€1,200 - 1,500

Sale fees

30%

Artillery officer’s saber, with a three-pronged chasseur-style guard in gilded brass, adorned with fillets; the third prong is broken and missing; the pommel has a long tail engraved with flowers and foliage; the chapeons are shuttle-shaped; the front one chiseled with two crossed cannons held together by a ribbon, with cannonballs below and laurel branches on either side, the other featuring a fleur-de-lis and a spiderweb; curved blade with a double edge and a counter-cut edge, carp-tongue tip, engraved, gilded, and blued one-third of the way up, signed on the heel: “S & K”; iron scabbard, two brass ring clasps, engraved and gilded in a continuous design on the front and, on the back, featuring a fleur-de-lis; length 106.5 cm. (Oxidation on the blade; the scabbard entry is missing). Early Empire period. Fairly good condition.

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Auction details

Antique Weapons, Historical Memorabilia, and Decorations
Wednesday, November 4
02:00 PM
Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Thierry de Maigret +33 1 44 83 95 20 maxime@tdemaigret.fr
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 170,000 lots published

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