December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Rare pattern cutlass of the French Revolution-Directory Period as would have also been encountered by American sailors in combat during the Quasi-War with France, 1797-1801. Hilt consists of a brass stirrup-guard with integral half-langets (each bearing illegible touch-marks) and a lozenge-shaped quillon; its brass pommel cap is flat and the blade tang secured to it with a diamond-shaped button; and leather-covered, wooden grip of squarish section, with two strands of double-twist, brass wire set in its spiraled groove channels. The slightly curved, wide-fullered blade is 23.5 inches long and 1 .75 inches wide at ricasso, terminating in a clipped point with a 5.5 inch false edge. The blade is etched It is engraved on the upper third of each face and spine, the left face with the letters "K F V" [?] and the right with “FL / C [?]within an armorial border surmounted by a moon and star. JLK