Officer's sword with rotating guard. Handle covered with basane with watermark. Brass mount. Guard with two branches with days including one rotating. Wrought iron spring . Beautiful and wide curved blade with flat back, counter-edge, gutter and hollow sides, engraved, gilded and blued in the third, on one side "For the nation and freedom with fleur-de-lis" on the other side a "man in arms with a shield decorated with lilies ". Wooden sheath covered with leather (back) with two cut brass trims, decorated to the line. A.B.E. About 1789-1792.