SWORDS. Ottoman "Pala" sabre with silver fittings, crook handle with horn plates, straight crosspiece with frieze-engraved mounts, straight quillons ending in olive, escutcheon engraved on one side "Marshallah" (God willed it) in the centre of the seal of Solomon, evocation of the sleeping men of Ephesus (Koran, Sura 18), curved blade with gutter, flat back and wide counter-edge, leather scabbard with 3 silver fittings finely engraved with arabesques and floral motifs and framed with a baguette, bowl underlined by a shell, signed on the reverse of the chape "FOURNERA à PARIS", . L: 91.5 cm, blade: 78.5 cm. 1st Empire-Restoration period. Blade cleaned, traces of pitting. ABE Antoine-Modeste FOURNERA, goldsmith and furrier in Paris around 1806-1817, at 8, rue de Perpignan then from 1811 at 28 rue Neuve Saint-Nicolas.