French (Napoleonic) Cavalry General officers Mameluke sword around 1810. (No ref.)
Early French (Napoleonic era) Cavalry General officers Mameluke sword. Made around 1810. Excellent+ highly curved fullered heavy blade with faint etchings on both sides of the blade. The weak etching shows wine leaves and floral motives. Blade with a sharp clip point. Beautiful P-shaped Berlin-silver anatomic shaped heavy grip, with two scales of polished white bone. No rivets in the grips. The grips are fixed to the grip by a Berlin silver "Eye" in the top for a sword knot. Berlin-silver straight crossguard, the cross and the straight quillons on both sides beautiful and different decorated with fine flower leaves. Languets on both sides. Even quillions with flower finials.
No scabbard.
Length : ca. 94 cm. Width at the ricasso: 2.8 cm.!
Very rare and beautiful French cavalry General officers dress sword.
This Mameluke swords became popular after Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian expeditions ( 1798-1801). This is an early (Napoleonic era) heavy French general officers Mameluke sword. Similar examples you can see on many painting from that time frame.
A beautiful example!