Object data
iron, gilt brass, ivory and cloth
sword: length 83.7 cm
blade: length 70.4 cm × width 2.1 cm
hilt: length 13.2 cm
ricasso: length 0.5 cm
Manufacture de Klingenthal
Naval Officer's Sword
Klingenthal (Alsace), 1843 - 1858
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the blade near the hilt: Klingenthal
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-738
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Naval officer’s sword with slightly curved pipe-backed blade and false edge.
Gilt brass hilt with ivory grip, pierced half-basket guard embossed with foliage patterns and crown over a foul anchor; the hilt has no pommel but a pommel and backpiece. The scabbard, which was lost, can be seen on an old photograph. It had a brass locket and top locket; the top locket was adorned with a crown over a foul anchor, a shell-shaped frog stud and a suspension ring.
This is a Dutch naval officer’s sword (1843 pattern), which was derived from the French naval officer’s sword of 1837. It was replaced by one with a new hilt in 1882, because an officer using the 1843 pattern sword received a hand wound in a fight on the Aceh coast.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 738; W.E. May and P.G.W. Annis, Swords for Sea Service, 2 vols., London 1970, p. 171, pl. 119; J.P. Puype, Blanke wapens. Nederlandse slag- en steekwapens sinds 1600 … , Lochem/Popperinge 1981, pp. 15, 18, figs. 124, 247
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Manufacture de Klingenthal, Naval Officer's Sword, Klingenthal (Alsace), 1843 - 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244552
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