SABER / LIGHTER 1767

Description

SABER / LIGHTER 1767
very simplified helmet-shaped shell
united guard branch, arriving at a right angle on the rectilinear cruise provided with two upper half-mumps
straight quillon terminated by a button
flat blade
"F 84" marking on the handle
punch on the blade at the heel
In service with the French infantry under the Ancien Régime and the Revolution Commissioned under Louis XV to replace grenadier sabers and rifle swords, this infantry saber will continue its service under the Revolution to be replaced by the 1790 model and then the An IX model. This short saber is the result of the reform of the Duke of Choiseul, who was Secretary of State at the War Department, and takes official service with the ordinance of April 25, 1765. The blades are generally engraved, for example the soldier's weapon, or the King's monogram. Manufacturing is carried out at the Manufacture d'Armes Blanches de Klingenthal, first by Maupetit, then by the entrepreneur Louis Antoine Gau de Vaumarin, later by the entrepreneur François Daniel Oesinger and finally by Jean François Perrier in 1784. In 1770 this saber underwent a slight modification: the frame was no longer cast in a single piece (the half-mumps became figurative
although not having a manufacturing registration, it may be the Manufacture d'Alsace before it became early Klingenthal or when it was taken over by Klingenthal
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OBJET ANTIQUE ET TEMPOREL
source: Livre de Jean LHOSTE
TOTAL LENGHT :   74.5  cm APPRO
BLADE LENGHT :  59.5 cm APPRO
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