Beautiful revolutionary volunteer officer's saber. Gilt brass mounting. Helmet-shaped pommel with chenille, grille and long tail. Handle entirely copper filigree. Three-prong guard with climbing lion shell, openwork top, straight shell quillon. Beautiful, wide, flat-backed blade with gutter and counter-edge, engraved, gilded and blued in thirds, decorated with foliage, bouquets, trophies, figures, lilies and a cartouche inscribed "Volontaire de la Garde Nationale". Leather strap (damaged and disjointed), with two brass fittings, cut out and line-decorated. Mounted with an antique, but later, gilt strap with three black fillets. Mounting in good condition. Scabbard in fairly good condition. Circa 1789-1792.