A NAPOLEON III STEEL TWENTY-EIGHT LIGHT CHANDELIER
CIRCA 1870
Made from bayonet handles and blades from the Franco/Prussian war shaped into scrolling branches, each handle with impressed numbered stamps, including French M.1822 socket bayonets and cocking-pieces from French M.1866 Chassepot service rifles, with applied gilt-metal trophy mounts
43 in. (109.5 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide
A NAPOLEON III STEEL TWENTY-EIGHT LIGHT CHANDELIER
CIRCA 1870
Made from bayonet handles and blades from the Franco/Prussian war shaped into scrolling branches, each handle with impressed numbered stamps, including French M.1822 socket bayonets and cocking-pieces from French M.1866 Chassepot service rifles, with applied gilt-metal trophy mounts
43 in. (109.5 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide
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