Sword Identification

[johnnydshouse]

Does anybody know where this sword could possibly be from? It looks like it has a small S followed by another letter next to the hand guard but there is a little rust covering it and I do not want to damage the sword trying to clean it off.Thanks for any reply's!

 

Dave

 

[Chris Boonzaier]

beautiful piece! I think these are French Artillery swords, also used by the USA.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_1832_foot_artillery_sword

 

 

[Brian Wolfe]

I would agree with Chris, though I suppose that is rather redundant considering the Wikipedia link.

From what I can see, a very nice example. 

Regards

Brian

[johnnydshouse]

Thanks, you guys!

 

[johnnydshouse]

Would you guys know the value of something like this sword? Thanks!