French First Empire 1784 Model Garde de Bataille Dragoon Officers Sword. 40 ¾” overall, 36” slightly curved blade with single wide fuller, with faint poincons, Brass Garde De Bataille hilt with pierced palmette guard linked to the D shaped knucklebow by four branches, pommel cap with ‘V’ stamp, black leather grip with 12 turns of twisted brass wire. In its original steel scabbard with two suspension bands with loose rings.
Circa 1800
An attractive sword in good condition, which was used throughout the Napoleonic era.
The Garde de Bataille sword has an attractive hilt style that typifies the neo-classical decorative influences that were prevalent in French military sword design in the late-18th &early 19th century.