FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PERIOD INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD AND SCABBARD
A FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PERIOD INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD AND SCABBARD. With a 72 cm curved blade with pointed tip, broad fuller and 22.5 cm blued section with gilt engraved trophies and foliate designs. With a gilt handle with short quillon, elongated oval langets and stirrup type guard with central ornament. Chequered ebony grip and domed pommel. In a black leather scabbard with gilt mounts. Marked NK towards the grip, possibly for Nicholas Kichoff of Solingen. Provenance Jemswords, Taunton. Condition: Dents to lower end of scabbard, slight nibbles in the edge of the blade, very slight bend in tip. Generally a very attractive example. Sometime refinished in places.








































