99 Frankreich: Säbel der Garde Nationale, 1830.

 Gilt hilt with decoration of laurel leaves. Handle with somewhat loosened wire wrapping. Magnificent fullered single-edged blade, the upper half finely blued and gilded and with gilded decorative etching. On the reverse "GARDE NATIONALE", above the laurel-wreathed Gallic cock and the inscription "LIBERTE". On the obverse side the gilt inscription: "ORDRE PUBLIC", above it the Gallic cock crowned with laurel branches, symbol of civic royalty, and the inscription: "FRATERNITÈ". 

On the ricasso engraved: "Coulaux Frères à Klingenthal". On the back: "Juillet 1830".

Original black leather scabbard with gilded fittings with engraved decoration of weapon trophies and arabesques. On carrying knob. Length: 90 cm. Blade: 75 cm.

Magnificent, particularly finely executed edged weapon, which embodies the beginning Monarchie de Juillet and the July Revolution in 1830.

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