A FRENCH PARTISAN FOR THE ROYAL GUARD, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with leaf-shaped blade tapering at the point and formed with a medial ridge, etched on each face with the crowned Royal arms of France and Navarre enclosed by the Orders of St Michel and St Esprit, the base with a pair of lugs and stamped 'Gounod' and 'L'Aine' on the respective faces, tapering faceted socket fitted with a transverse bolt (spike missing), a pair of straps, on a wooden haft with iron shoe and tassel 62.5 cm; 24 5/8 in head Provenance Robert-Jean-Charles, Paris, sold Drouot, 8 December 1993, lot 306
A FRENCH PARTISAN FOR THE ROYAL GUARD, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with leaf-shaped blade tapering at the point and formed with a medial ridge, etched on each face with the crowned Royal arms of France and Navarre enclosed by the Orders of St Michel and St Esprit, the base with a pair of lugs and stamped 'Gounod' and 'L'Aine' on the respective faces, tapering faceted socket fitted with a transverse bolt (spike missing), a pair of straps, on a wooden haft with iron shoe and tassel 62.5 cm; 24 5/8 in head Provenance Robert-Jean-Charles, Paris, sold Drouot, 8 December 1993, lot 306
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