The objects, received by the Director of the Navy Museum, Commodore José António Croca Favinha, are an official sword of the Portuguese Navy, contemporary, according to the British non-regulatory model of the “Five Balls Sword”, from the period of naval service of the 7th Marquis of Nisa, about 1800 and a marlin of “great apparatus” for an officer of the Portuguese Navy that, according to the uniform plan of 1835, it was stipulated their use for general officers of the Navy in large uniform, which is believed to have been produced in the 1st quarter of the century. XIX.
The Navy Museum is honored by this donation that will greatly contribute to continue to tell its story in an even richer way.