FRANCE, seconde moitié du XIXème siècle COULAUX in Klingenthal. Marine officer's uniform sword, model 1837. Bronze hilt with a single branch decorated with laurel and oak branches, and cruise with a quillon adorned with a shell. Keyboard centered on a naval anchor surmounted by a crown on a flag-cluster background, and framed by oak and laurel branches. Plain counter-keyboard on ball joint. Pommel with scallop shells and palmettes. Blackened brown horn handle. Straight, diamond-shaped blade with two cutting edges and two median ridges. Signed heel. Molded leather scabbard with two gilded brass fittings, the chape with shell knob and the bouterole engraved with rushes and foliage with gadrooned ring. Blade length: 78.2 cm - Total length: 96 cm. Watermark missing; hard ball joint; some corrosion on the blade; wear to leather and gilding.