Venereal Dagger Silver Mount (min. 800). Two-branch cruise with dog-heads. Ribbed ebony fuse. Pommel decorated with a rosette in oak leaves. Blade with two cutting edges and two grooves, with gilded decoration on a blue background of trophies and palmettes, signed "LE PAGE Arqr du Roi à Paris" at the heel. Sheath with a brown leather-wrapped wooden core and silver cap and rivet (min. 800) decorated with a lance, a laurel wreath and a palmette button. Silversmith's stamp: J.L. on either side of a lictor beam, under a closed crown. No guarantee stamp, but object exempted because manufactured before 1838. Restoration period. Total gross weight: 544 g. - Blade length: 55.3 cm. - Total length: 70 cm. Scratches, some shocks and small missing parts, especially at the rocket. Oxidation on the blade, wear on the leather of the sheath. Screed to be reattached. Difficulty getting the dagger into the sheath. Jean LE PAGE (1746-1834), harquebusier and furbisher in Paris, from 1779 to 1822. He was the supplier of Louis XVI, the First Consul, then the Emperor and Louis XVIII.