Officer's sword, gilded brass single-branch mount, spindle w - Lot 35

Officer's sword, gilded brass single-branch mount, spindle with squared mother-of-pearl plates, pommel with frieze, acanthus leaves and winged thunderbolts, flat branch engraved with antique-style trophies, antique-style half-blade, engraved with a cuirass, shields, axe and glaives, broached on two standards, engraved quillon arched forward, ferrule embossed with fleurons, straight blade, half flatback, engraved with trophies and blued one-third, signed "P. front, ferrule stamped with fleurons, 810 mm straight blade, half flatback, engraved with trophies and one-third blued, signed "P. Knecht à Solingen", with crimson cloth tie, SF, wear, TL 945 mm, France Empire period. Expert Hervé MATOUS