Pair Of Sterling Silver Spurs, Marseille (france), Empire Period

- Pair of "officer's" spurs
- Forged and engraved silver
- By Laurent Voysin, master goldsmith in Marseille, dates (?)
- Marseille, 1809-1819
- Length (loop to the wheel): 16 cm; width: 9.5 cm; weight: 188 g (95g & 93g)
- Very good condition, beautiful and fresh engraving

- Pair of silver spurs - perhaps officer's - in silver, with engraving of palmettes and in frames of fillets a decoration of interlacing "peacock feathers"

- Hallmarks (on the branches): master goldsmith: L, an insect (a bee?), V, Laurent Voysin, master goldsmith in Marseille [Jourdan-Barry, K 168, p.245]; Title: in an oval, a rooster raising the dough and the number 1 at the top left, for the 1st title of 950 thousandths, Province from September 1, 1809 to August 16, 1819 [Helft,]; guarantee: Man's head in profile to the right, medium guarantee for the Province from September 1, 1809 to August 16, 1819 [Helft]; guarantee (on the loops): lictor's fasces turned to the right, small guarantee for the silver of the Province from September 1, 1809 to August 16, 1819.
- Ref.: [Helft] Helft, Jacques: "Le poinçon de provinces françaises", F. de Nobele, Paris, 1968; Jourdan-Barry, Raymond: "Les orfèvresd ela Généralité d'Aix-en-Provence", by Nobele, Paris, 1974