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A RARE FRENCH FIRST EMPIRE REGULATION DAGGER FOR THE MAMELOUK LIGHT CAVALRY SQUADRON OF THE GARDE IMPÉRIALE, BY THE ARMS MANUFACTORY, VERSAILLES

DATED 1813

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A RARE FRENCH FIRST EMPIRE REGULATION DAGGER FOR THE MAMELOUK LIGHT CAVALRY SQUADRON OF THE GARDE IMPÉRIALE, BY THE ARMS MANUFACTORY, VERSAILLES
Dated 1813
In the style of a jambiya, with curved slender tapering hollow-ground blade inscribed 'Manure Imple du Klingenthal' on one side and 'Avril 1813' on the other, brass oval guard cast as a stylised lotus-flower and struck with two small marks inside, one 'V', waisted grip covered in ribbed leather, brass curved oval pommel-cap also struck twice with the small 'V' mark and stamped 'Versailles' on the staple-shaped ring, and in a brass-mounted leather scabbard, the locket struck with a miniscule mark.
20¼in (51.4cm)

Literature

Alaric and Etienne, op.cit, G.d.A, No. 288, May 1998.

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Lot Essay

Bottet estimated that two-hundred Mamelouk daggers were manufactured at Versailles in 1813, out of a total of three-hundred and sixty-five.

Ariès states that leather scabbards in this style were for use by sous-officiers. See C. Ariès, Armes Blanches Militaires Françaises, XV, 1° fascicule, fig. 3A.

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