Overall: 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.)
Lead
Lead
Blade: steel with gold-filled incised decoration and inscriptions; handle: braided brass wire over fabric on a wooden core; guard: cast brass and gilt bronze, with profile portrait of Lafayette enframed in draped flags; lion-headed pummel: cast brass with gilt bronze decoration
18th centuryFrenchLead
Cast bronze with gilded silver and engraved steel
19th centuryFrenchLead
Lead
Iron
JapaneseCast copper
3rd millennium BCEIndianLead
Arsenical bronze
3rd millennium BCECycladicLead
3rd century BCEEgyptian