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Grey" musketeer's foot service sword of the 1st...

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Grey" musketeer's foot service sword of the 1st Company. Fully watermarked fuse. Gold-plated and chiselled brass mount. Urn pommel. One-branch hilt with lions and fleur-de-lys, two straight leafy quillons and amati body knot. Keyboard with raised rim decorated with flowers and shells, enriched with the fleurdelisé cross and the musketeers' flame, in silver, brought back. Triangular blade engraved, blued and gilded with trophies and foliage in the third part; at the heel, "IS" and "C" on a gold background. Leather scabbard (hind), with two gilt brass trimmings, cut, engraved and chased. Palmette clevis knob. B.E. (small traces of oxidation towards the tip of the blade).