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23rd December 2012, 08:40 AM
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Location: Surrey, Great Britain.
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It is indeed a French Model 1855 infantry officer's sword. The grip would not have been covered with fish skin - this is how it would always have been - and it is probably horn rather than bakerlite. This model of sword was replaced (generally, though not universally) in the French infantry in 1882, so your sword dates almost certainly to between 1855 and 1882.
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