Rare imperial guard artillery train officer's... Lot 261

Rare imperial guard artillery train officer's saber, gilded brass six-point guard with openwork shell featuring a crowned eagle on two crossed barrels, button-shaped gadrooned quillon, palmette counterplate, octagonal cap adorned with fillets, leather-covered, filigree spindle; Montmorency-style blade, flat-backed, gilded throughout, both sides blued and gilded on one half, lateral groove along the back, finished with a counter-edge, engraved at the heel with foliage, trophies and two cartouches bearing the inscriptions on one side: "TRAIN - D'ARTILLERIE", and on the other: "GARDE - IMPÉRIALE", the extremities, after the cartouches, are engraved in the antique manner of a Roman eagle, with a box surmounted by an "N" in a laurel wreath and, above, the crowned eagle, the decoration ends with a star and a palmette, it is signed, at the heel, on one side: "Duc Fourbisseur de la Garde Impériale Impériale, Rue St-honoré en face celle de la Loi n° 251 à Paris"; leather scabbard with three large gilded brass fittings, decorated with filets, iron stinger; length 112 cm. (Wear to gilding on scabbard fittings). First Empire period. Very good condition.