Maréchaussée officer's sword of the model 1787 . horn handle (rear ) with watermark. Brass frame decorated with a "line", four-pointed guard . Straight blade, one-third engraved (puncture marks) with flat back, counter-edge and double hollow sides. Signed on the stub "P. MEYER supplier of the.. . in Brussels". Leather sheath with two brass trims cut and gilded to the line, button cap and a line ring . Iron stinger . E.M. (reassembly). End of the Old Regime - First Empire.