France
Third Republic
Steel, horn, brass
Total length: 101 cm; Blade length: 98 cm
Sword of a junior officer in the Engineering Corps and Engineering Administration, model of 19 March 1872, modified in 1884.
Olive pommel with rivet button.
Brown horn guard.
Iron breastplate and pot-in-head crossguard.
Movable counterguard, introduced in 1887.
Blade with double fuller and median ridge.
Felt tie.
Steel scabbard, ring for suspension, lyre-shaped tip.
Ref.: 6781
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