Overall: 3.3 cm (1 5/16 in.)
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
3rd century BCEEgyptianLead
Cast bronze with gilded silver and engraved steel
19th centuryFrenchLead
Lead
Lead
Arsenical bronze
3rd millennium BCECycladicCopper
3rd millennium BCECypriotLead
Bronze
6th-5th century BCEIranianLead or Pewter