French early Napoleonic naval boarding cutlass by VERSAILLES arsenal. Unit marked.

French M 1802 Naval boarding cutlass. Excellent - unmarked bright finished long curved blade with a narrow fuller close to the blade spine. The blade shows light user spurs and somewhat staining only. (The blade is not marked, but there is no doubt that all sword blades of swords made at the Versailles arsenal, were produced in Klingenthal- Elsac.) Intact brown leather washer. Excellent heavy one piece brass hilt with a single hand guard and a forward swept quillon.  Grip with 28 fine ribs. (Note: The hilt is much heavier than the hilt of an infantry briquet. See: last picture for a comparison with the hilt of a French M 1802 infantry briquet) Left side of the hand guard is maker marked: VERSAILLES (= Versailles Arms Manufacture.- Director Nicolas Noel Boutet 1804- 1818 ) and shows two more French inspection markings. J.C. in an oval (= Jean Cazamajou 1803-1806/ 1809-1811) and the other, very weak: AC in an oval (= Antoine Chapell Febr. 1805 - July 1809 ). The guard is very crisp unit marked in large digits: I L 13 : 119.
Comes with its Excellent tooled black thick leather scabbard. Stitched on the blade back side. All stitches and frog strap intact. Some abuse to the brass chape and finial only. 
Total length: 76 cm. Width at the ricasso: 3,2 cm

Very impressive early French Napoleonic naval boarding sword. It differs from the infantry briquet by a larger hilt and a different fullered blade. Not easy to find!
This French Naval boarding cutlass is made at the Versailles Arsenal based in a wing of the Versailles Palais in Paris from 1793 till August 1818. This cutlass is clearly made between 1805 and 1809!