Staff officer saber probably from the Kingdom of Italy. Chased brass mounting. Wooden handle squared in rhombuses. Eagle head cap with long skirt. Guard with a moving branch, two quillons in rhombuses decorated with trophies of arms in the Roman way and long curved quillon towards the point ending in palmette. Curved blade, flat back, engraved in thirds, (remainder of blue and gold), with counter-edge and hollow sides. Wooden scabbard covered with leather with three large brass fittings with embossed decoration on one side of trophies of arms. The eagle and the handle could link it to a manufacture dating from the Kingdom of Italy. Length of the blade : 84 cm. B.E. First Empire period.