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Seth 😱 // Fake Collab
Collab with @fluttershyflores2 ♥️
I don't have any oc-es related to the Celestial Realm, so here we go with Seth, the young soldier 🥰 I like his white hair ☺️🤗
💬 2 🔁 1 ❤️ 10 · A young Flor was walking past Àn xi, she just listened to Flor talking about whatever she said. You were walking/visiting
Following on from @victoriansword‘s post on sword grips and my one showing three more British swords. Here are three French swords of the same era. They are from top to bottom: 1. An XIII Heavy Cavalry troopers sword 2. An XI Light Cavalry troopers sword 3. Light Cavalry officers sword. Both the AN XIII and AN XI are big swords, larger by some margin than their British counterparts.
A lovely An XI Light Cavalry Sabre, France, ca. 1809-1811, from Bertrand Malvaux Antiques.
As an addition to my posts on sword grips, here is a size comparison between the heavy and light cavalry trooper swords of the French and British Napoleonic armies.
From top to bottom:
French Model An XIII Sabre of the line, - used by Dragoons and Cuirassiers
Originally this blade would have been issued with a hatchet point making it slightly longer. However, by 1814 field modifying them into spear points became common and in 1816 this became an official modification, getting retroactively applied to swords in service.
Total Length: 1120mm
Blade Length: 960mm
Sword Weight: 1300 grams
British 1796 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Sword
Based on the Austrian model 1769 the British sword was originally issued with a hatchet tip. However, like their French opponents, field modification into a spear point became common practice to make the sword more effective in the thrust.
Total Length: 1020mm
Blade Length: 890mm
Sword Weight: 1020 grams
French model An XI, - used by ‘Hunters on horse’, Hussars, Lancers, and Mounted Artillery
Introduced in year eleven (1802) of the Revolutionary calendar the AN XI came about as a rationalisation of the different models of light cavalry sabres in service to meet the supply demands of near constant warfare the new French state found itself in.
Total Length: 1010mm
Blade Length: 870mm
Sword Weight: 1190 grams
British 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry Sabre, - used by Light Dragoons and Mounted Artillery
Designed by John Gaspard le Merchant with cooperation from Henry Osborn in response to complaints of British cavalry troopers on the poor performance of their 1788 pattern sabres. Based loosely on Eastern European sabres the 1796 LC proved to be a hard hitting sword and immensely popular.
Total Length: 945mm
Blade Length: 820mm
Sword Weight: 880 grams
Sabre d’officer de Cavalerie legere - Modele de l’an XI French swords of the 18th and early 19th century are commonly grouped by the political era that formed them. The Royal era ended in 1789 with the brutal French Revolution giving rise to the First Republic in 1792.
Split into the Directory and Consulate periods, the First Republic lasted until 18 May 1804 with the crowning of Napoleon as Emperor giving birth to the First Empire which lasted to 11 April 1814 and again with Napoleon’s return from exile March 1815 till his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815.
With Napoleon back in exile, the victorious allied nations restored the French monarchy, a period referred to as the Restoration Period which lasted until 1852.
To complicate things further, in 1792, full of revolutionary fervour the French Government decided to do away with the past and start afresh. This included the calendar. It was decided that they would go back to year one on 22 September 1792. So, the model year 11 is the same as the m.1802
As the name suggests, the An XI was introduced as a replacement sabre for the Light Cavalry in 1802, although an earlier model the An IX did see limited production before the design was finalised. Called the Chasseurs a cheval or hunters on horse, this hilt style is often referred to as the ‘hunter guard’ although the design saw service with all multiple mounted branches, including the mounted artillery.
The An XI, like many swords of the First Empire era continued to be used into the Restoration period. Because the trooper swords went through the government ordnance channels, they are marked with inspectors’ stamps and often the date of manufacture, making it relatively straightforward to date them.
Officer swords, however, are more difficult to date. Being private purchase lot of choice was available to the buyer in the specific features of the sword he wanted. Some were more focused on its’ suitability for combat, while others focused on the fashion aspect.
During the First Empire period, the German sword manufacturing centre of Solingen was under French control. Because of this, a lot of the An XI officer’s sword (and others) can from that region. This sword is one such example, produced in Solingen and retailed by the Schnitzler & Kirschbaum company, as seen by the S & K mark on the ricasso. S&K were operating from 1792 - 1864 and this sword probably dates from 1805 to 1810 based on the shape of the guard and pommel.
Overall Length - 985 mm Blade Length - 850 mm Grip Length - 130 mm Inside Grip Length - 105 mm Weight - 830 grams Total Weigth - 1480 grams Point of Balance - 130 mm
I’ve posted quite a few British swords recently, so I think it’s time to bring out the Frenchies for a bit. Balance things out, so to speak. They are, from left to right:
Mounted Artillery Officers Sabre - Restoration Era, Solingen blade
AN XI Light Cavalry Officers’ Sabre - First Empire, Solingen blade
AN XI Light Cavalry Troopers Sabre - First Empire
Garde de Bataille Dragoon Officer’s Sword - First Empire
AN XIII Heavy Cavalry Troopers Sabre - First Empire
