A Navy officer's sword, Two Sicilies, signed “1849, Napoli Labruna”, Italy Century provenance: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Straight blade of hexagonal section, with light fuller and engraved at the forte, featuring trophies and racemes, on one side OF THE BLADE - a small inscription with date '1849 Napoli Labruna'. Brass hilt. Butt-plate with two valves, the front one with crowned shield surmounted by 6 flags, all in relief. Guard decorated with floral motifs in relief. Pommel decorated en suite. Horn grip with metal wire binding (minor damage and defects). Without scabbard. The sword was probably reused in the Unitarian period as the Bourbon lilies have been abraded. Interesting. Total Length: 94.3 cm. Blade length: 79.5 cm; Weight: 793 g = 1 lb. 12 oz. Very similar sword was sold for € 3.750, AT FINARTE, ON MARCH 30, 2023, SARZANA, ITALY https://www.finarte.it/auction/military-arms-and-memorabilia-sarzana-2023-03-30/a-navy-officer-s-sword-94448?lang=en A navy officer's sword, 1849 ESTIMATE: € 350 - 550 Sold: € 3.750 Regno delle Due Sicilie length 96.5 cm Straight, double-edged blade of lozenge section, the first part with groove and marked "Napoli 1849" (the name barely legible, probably "Mendozza"), remains of engraving with trophies and floral motifs. Brass hilt, shell-guard with anchor under crown and on six flags, quillon shaped as a lion's head, loop-guard with floral motifs and pommel with bees and thunderbolts. Horn grip with coils and metal wire binding. Leather scabbard with brass mounts engraved with floral motifs. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie)[1] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of a cadet branch of the Spanish Bourbons.[2] The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and most of the area of today's Mezzogiorno in covering all of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States. The kingdom was formed when the Kingdom of Sicily merged with the Kingdom of Naples, which was officially also known as the Kingdom of Sicily. Since both kingdoms were named Sicily, they were collectively known as the "Two Sicilies" (Utraque Sicilia, literally "both Sicilies"), and the unified kingdom adopted this name. The king of the Two Sicilies was overthrown by Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1860, after which the people voted in a plebiscite to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. The annexation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies completed the first phase of Italian unification, and the new Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in 1861. The Two Sicilies were heavily agricultural, like the other Italian states.[3]