Chilean dress sword. The hilt has a gilt, solid half basket guard with raised bars. The oval-shape, which on a British sword would contain a crown and anchor badge, contains an anchor surmounted by a five-pointed star (or mullet); the folding flap on the reverse has a hole to engage stud on top locket of scabbard and there is a small up-turned quillion with disc terminal. The guard is pierced only at the bottom, near the pommel for a sword knot. There is an eagle's head pommel and back-piece, the neck feathers extending three fifths of the way up to ferrule at the top of the grip. The ferrule has two lines of beads seperated by a spray of laurel. The white fish-skin grip is bound with three gilt wires.

The blade is very slightly curved, flat-backed with a single, broad fuller running along each side from the 0.8 inch deep shoulder to within 8.5 inches of the point. Engraved for little more than half its length, it is probably of German manufacture. On the obverse is engraved within the Shield of David, a proof-mark bearing a Fleur de Lys and the word 'PROVED'; scrolls and foliage; bow view of a full-rigged sailing ship; trident and rammer in saltire; heavily enfoliated; foul anchor surmounted by a mullet; heavily enfoliated tropy of a drum, flag, gun, rammers, sword and military helmet. On the reverse are scrolls and foliage, bow view of sailing ship, the ball obscured by a spray of foliage; scrolls and foliage; foul anchor surmounted by a mullet; a foliated tropy of two guns (in saltire), swords, a rammer and a guidon (or swallow-tailed pendant). The scabbard is missing.

The general appearance of this sword is very like that of a British naval officer's sword of the period of 1880 to about 1937. The attribution to Chile is based on the following considerations: 1. The mullet with 'ribs' connecting each point to the centre of the gap between the two opposite points, is the most important feature of the Arms, National Flag and Jack of Chile.
2. The bird on the pommel, although it resembles an eagle more than the Chilean condor, could be the Chilean Eagle even though it does not appear on the National Arms. This is a bird found in the Andes from Venezuela to the Straight of Magellan.