A FRENCH TROOPER'S SABRE OF THE CHASSEURS À CHEVAL, MODEL 1790, CIRCA 1798
mounted correctly with a blade modelled on the 1781 regulation, with characteristic residual ricasso, gilt-brass hilt of the successive issue type, retaining its original leather-covered grip bound with brass single-strand wire, the blade and the knuckle-guard struck with War Administration acceptance marks, a fasces and a cockerel respectively, and the inner face of the guard with the maker's stamped signature 'Liorard'
92 cm; 36¼ in blade The fasces and cockerel State acceptance marks were introduced by the Comité de Salut Public in 1793 and used until 1798, in place of the marks of military inspectors absent within the revolutionary period. Liorard is recorded as a fourbisseur working at 163, rue de la Verrerie, Paris, 1798-1800. See M. Pétard 1999, pp.122-3, figs. 112a & 112b, pp.180-1, figs. 11 & 17