ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPANISH SWORDS
SABER. Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (sword expert)
Reference | 4-1931-H |
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Name | Navy Artillery Officer |
Era | Around 1931 |
Hilt | Composed of an openwork bowl guard with knuckle bow, made of gilt brass, and on the front, an anchor with stock over two crossed cannons beneath a mural crown. Pommel with a continuous cord formed by a triton’s head and its back. Quillon ending with the head of a mythological animal. Ivory-colored grip, fluted and wired with copper twisted wire. |
Blade | Classical in the Navy, curved, with a corded back, edge on the outside and carp tongue-shaped ricasso, with central rib and slight false edge. Interestingly, it is not rigid but somewhat flexible. |
Scabbard | Black patent leather with two bands, chape and one ring. All in gilt brass and beautifully decorated. On the front of the throat engraved “Juan Sande”. |
Inscription | Toledo Workshop Spanish Navy. Preciados… Madrid. Distinguished and unique custom sword for an officer of the Navy Artillery Corps. It features a mural crown on the bowl guard and a single ring on the scabbard, belonging to the Second Republic. It also bears the Navy Artillery elements: crossed cannons, the anchor with stock, and a triton on the pommel. |
Total Length | 925 mm |
Blade | 780 mm |
Width | 23 mm |
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