A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED GLAIVE, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with tapering double-edged blade etched and gilt with flowers and foliage on a blued panel at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising a pair of straight quillons with hound's head terminals, the quillon-block decorated with a medusa mask on a gilt panel on each face, gadrooned pommel decorated with foliage and the grip en suite, in its original silver scabbard cast and chased with elaborate trophies-of-arms in high relief, struck with St Etienne marks for 1819-38 and the maker's mark 'C.C' within a diamond, the inner face engraved with border ornament, the locket with the later inscription 'Boutet et Fils a Versaille' on both faces of the mouth and the outside with the later crowned monogram 'JN' (the gilding refreshed, probably added at the same time as the inscriptions) 60.3 cm; 23 3/4 in blade