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Lot 1441 - A194 Arms & Armour Col. Sigrist - Thursday, 24. September 2020, 05.00 PM

SABRE

French ca. 1745, Grenadier, Swiss Guard Regiment in French service.
Iron hilt, spherical pommel with conical neck, grip and guard plate screwed into the pommel. The quillon, engraved "G151" (duty number of the Grenadier, internal weapons control), thumb plate. Two-part guard plate, painted sheet metal with punctiform piercings. Handle, wrapped with brass wire. Single-edged blade. Hollow cut and fluting, etched ornamental decoration featuring trophies.
L 93 cm, C: 1, single-edged blade L 78.2 cm, W 2.8 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection M. Sigrist, Lucerne.

A weapon of this type is in the Collection of the Hist. Museum Thurgau, Frauenfeld, see J.A.Meier, Vivat Hollandia, pp. 34/36, Fig.11-14 Pétard, Des Sabres et des Epées, Troupes à pied. No. 68, same blade mass.


CHF 600 / 800 | (€ 620 / 820)

Sold for CHF 1 125 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.