FRANCE, époque révolutionnaire ou début du Premier Empire Marine officer's saber, type 1800. Brass hilt with straight cruise and curved quillon with nipple, one fluted columnar limb with scrolled attachment, and pommel with melon ribs and short tail. Grooved and checkered ebony spindle. Slightly curved, single-edged, flat-backed blade with two hollow sides and counter-edged tip, partially blued and decorated with gilded trophies and leaves. Stitched blackened leather scabbard with two fittings and a brass ring; cap engraved on one side with a knotted anchor on a background of two crossed oars, surmounted by an eye on a radiating background; bolt decorated with reeds. Blade length: 80.5 cm - Total length: 95.7 cm. Wear, scratches and knocks from use; crack and small chips to the spindle; oxidation to the blade; scabbard leather seam missing, edges close together and glued, average condition, cracked leather.