FRANCE, Premier Empire Staff officer's saber, Vendémiaire an XII model. Chased gilt bronze mounting. Single-branch hilt, ending in a leafy buckle, and cruiser decorated with a martial trophy, featuring a Greek helmet on a flag, sword and trumpet background, in a rectangular reserve underlined by half-oreillas with palmette. Short-tailed pommel adorned with a torus of laurel leaves. Ebony spindle with oblique grooves. Slightly curved, single-edged blade with two gutters and round back, tip finished with a counter-edge. With a (longer) light cavalry officer's scabbard in sheet iron with two molded bracelets and gilded brass rings. Blade length: 83.2 cm - Scabbard length: 86.5 cm (without stinger) - 88 cm (with stinger) - Total length: 102 cm. The scabbard needs to be forced back to the hilt. Wear to the gilding; a few chips and a through crack to the spindle; a few stains, oxidation and knocks to the cutting edge of the blade; a few stains to the scabbard.