A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1780-90, PROBABLY PARIS with hollow-triangular blade, e

A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1780-90, PROBABLY PARIS with hollow-triangular blade, etched and gilt with scrolls and foliage and an allegorical figure on a blued panel, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, including double shell-guard decorated on each side with a sun-in-splendour above a pair of crossed fronds all carried on a framework of trellis, pierced quillon, a pair of pas d`âne, one struck with silver marks, probably Paris charge for 1780/9, quillon-block, knuckle-guard and ovoid pommel all decorated en suite with the shell, and the grip bound with plaited silver wire and ribband 88.5cm; 34 7/8in blade