HAM 638
Steel colichemarde blade. Double edge flattened hexagonal section tapering to acute point. forte symmetrically etched with rectangular strapwork cartouche on hatched ground & gilded. Oval cartouche at center depicting sun-in-splendor, standing angel admiring flower & below this is Latin inscription "hoc lumine vivimus". Towards point are trophied groups nearly identical with 1 face having armored male torso, the other a male head with victor's wreath. Iron hilt, stippled & gilded with broken scrolling tendrils, lions, deer & hunting dogs, rococo shells & scenes of Venus & Cupid ? on pommel. Symmetrical bivalve shell guard, arms of the hilt, baggy sleeve with short swollen rear quillon & "C"-shaped knuckle guard swollen at mid-height, its terminal plugged into base of pommel. Egg-shaped pommel narrowing towards turned base with turned button above. Original grip tapering to ends, wrapped in 3 styles of wire & flat silver stock.