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Nation : British
Local Price : £795.00

Georgian 60th Rifles Bandsman’s Sword.. A rare Georgian period 60th Rifles bandsman's shamshir sword. Plain, single fullered steel blade, marked "Bd 6" to the backstrap (presumably a rack number

Nation : British
Local Price : £795.00

1901-1910 British Edward VII 4th Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment 1897 Pattern Infantry Officer’s Sword With Blued & Etched Blade By Hobson & Sons London & Scabbard. Sn 22426:56 -. The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales’ Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by the Duke of Norfolk in 1689 and was able to boast an independent existence of over 300 years. The 4th Volunteer Battalion was formed in 1860. The regiment was expanded in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms by the linking of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot and the militia and rifle volunteers of Cheshire. The title 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment continued to be used within the regiment. On 1 September 2007, the Cheshire Regiment was merged with the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) and the Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s) to form a new large regiment, the Mercian Regiment, becoming the 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment. The Stockport Armoury building (Armoury Street, Stockport) was the Headquarters of the 4th Battalion, Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1862. The 4th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps evolved to become the 4th Volunteer Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment in 1883 and the 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in 1908. The battalion was mobilised at the Stockport Armoury, in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front and then being disbanded in 1920. This is an excellent original, King Edward VII (Reigned 1901-1910), 1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer’s Sword to the 4th Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment with Scabbard (see page 179 of World Swords by Withers & pages 165-167 of Swords of the British Army by Robson). The Sword has a 32 ½” single edged blade with fullers (39" overall). The blade is blued & has etched panels to both sides. One side has foliate devices, King’s Crown above scrolling banner ‘4th V.B Cheshire Regt’ & ordnance proof star with inlaid brass roundel. The reverse has foliate devices, King’s Crown above stylised Royal cypher ‘ER VII’ (Edward VII Rex) and heraldic arms above maker / retailer name ‘Hobson & Sons 1-3 & 5 Lexington St London W’. The hilt is fitted with its original leather washer. It has an ornate bowl guard with stylised Royal Cypher and undamaged gilt wire bound fish skin grip together with stepped steel pommel with ball top. It is complete with its nickel plated steel scabbard with 2 hanging rings. The body of the scabbard has lost patches of its original factory nickel finish which can be seen in the images. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 22426:56

Nation : German
Local Price : £750.00

Saxon Model 1867 Cavalry Trooper’s Sabre, Garde-Reiter Regiment, 1867-73. Curved single fullered sabre blade with spear point. Brass hilt with side bars. Brass backstrap, integral pommel with tang button and riveted ears. Ribbed grip of black leather over wood. Steel scabbard with two fixed hanging rings. Blade 34 3/8 inches in length, the sword 40 inches overall. The ricasso of the blade is stamped on one side with the manufacturer’s mark ‘P. D. Lüneschloss, Solingen’. It is stamped on the other side with the crown and ‘JR’ cypher of King Johann, who reigned from 1854 to 1873. The outside of the hilt is stamped ‘GR’, for Garde Reiter. The quillon is stamped on one side with a crown proof mark. The Garde-Reiter-Regiment (1. Schweres Regiment) (1 st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy Cavalry) was established in 1680 as a regiment of cuirassiers. It was the senior and premier heavy cavalry regiment of the Kingdom of Saxony, fighting in its wars from the Battle of Vienna through to WW1. The Saxon M1867 cavalry sword used by the enlisted men of the Garde Reiter borrowed much of its design from the Prussian M1852 cavalry officer’s sword, but with a brass hilt. Other Saxon cavalry of the period used the M1867 with a steel hilt. The Garde Reiter Regiment was disbanded in 1919. The outside of the hilt should bear the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Saxony – this has been lost, and one can see the two holes in the hilt where it would be riveted through. Removing the solidly riveted emblem would seem like a strange but deliberate modification. While this is speculative, this might have been done in the republican period for political reasons. The abdication of King Frederick Augustus III in 1918 left a power vacuum which led to several years of political violence in Saxony as left-wing radicals attempted to establish a Soviet Republic, opposed by right-wing forces including the infamous Freikorps, and later the army of the new Weimar Republic. The blade has areas of patination and pitting along its length. Its edge is undamaged, there are a couple of dents to the spine. No leather washer. The inside of the hilt has a dark, even patina, while the outside is brighter brass. Some patches of patination to the backstrap, pommel and ears. Only a short stub remains of the leather finger loop. A patch of leather has been lost from the grip on one3 side at the pommel end, exposing the ribbed wood beneath. Otherwise the grip shows very little handling wear. The scabbard has significant pitting and dark patination overall. It is structurally strong but has a rough texture.

Nation : American
Local Price : £750.00

18th Century French Hunting Hanger. A large, French Silver-Mounted Hanger with Lyon Silver Marks, dating from the mid-18th Century. With a broad fullered single-edged blade double-edged towards the point, a fine patina over the whole blade, with some old pitting towards the tip. The hilt comprising quillon-block cast and chased on each side with a stag beset by a hound in a wooded landscape. Recurved quillons each with lion-head terminal, lion-head pommel cast and chased with two hounds and rococo ornament at the back, and spirally-grooved ivory grip with small, slender old splits and minor damage. Ivory handle requiring a CITES license for UK and exporting outside the EU, cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU69.8 cm

Nation : British
Local Price : £750

Click and use the code >21275 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Good & Most Rare Victorian &#acute;Colonel-of-Staff&#acute; Hussars Regiments 19th Century, British Army Colonel&#acute;s {Undress} Combat Service Sabretache, in ´Russia Leather´, With Royal Cypher

Nation : American
Local Price : £750

Click and use the code >23573 to search for this item on the dealer website Antique Ethiopian Shotel - Gorode Officer´s Sword Of Emperor Menelik IInd´s Reign, & Then Into Emperor Halie Selassie´s Reign, the Last Ethiopian Emperor

Nation : American
Local Price : £750

Click and use the code >21684 to search for this item on the dealer website Fine and Beautiful Carved Horn Hilted 18th Century Royal Naval Officer´s Hanger Sword, Cutlass or Cuttoe

Nation : British
Local Price : £750.00

British Circa 1804 Naval Cutlass with Unusual Variant Blade. Single fullered spear pointed blade with upturned tip section, iron ‘figure eight’ hilt with sword knot slit, tubular quillon. Solid iron grip cast with corrugated texturing. Barest fragments of a leather washer. Blade 28 3/8 inches in length, the cutlass 33¼ inches overall. No scabbard. This cutlass has the ‘figure-eight’ hilt and grip that were used on the first standardised cutlass for the Royal Navy, the 1804 Pattern, but pairs these with an unusually shaped blade, neither fully straight due to its upturned tip nor with a continuous curve. Its single narrow fuller running close to the spine is of the style seen on British hangers and backswords of the 18 th century, whereas the 1804 Pattern was unfullered, simpler to manufacture but heavier in use. This blade shape seems to be rare but has been seen on other cutlasses of the late 18 th century. See Lot 212 sold at Antony Cribb auctions on 26th Nov, 2024: described by them as a late 18 th century American cutlass, that example has the same unusual blade shape but with a simpler iron strap hilt and ribbed wood grip. The Cribb example might indeed be American in origin, but this example is more likely British in origin because of its use of the Pattern hilt and grip. That said, British and American cutlasses of that period shared design features and components could be traded or reused. Without a maker’s mark this identification can’t be conclusive. With no evident military marks either I would suggest this cutlass was made for the commercial market: suppliers of the period sold even-handedly to the Royal Navy, merchant shipping and the growing American market. Compared with the Cribb example and most other pre-Pattern cutlasses I would say this was the better sword: the textured and contoured cast iron grip was less likely to turn in the hand and coped better with sea air than smooth wood, the figure-eight hilt offered more hand protection than a simple knucklebow, and providing a knot slit allowed it to be tied to the hand more securely. Logically this cutlass must postdate 1804, and was perhaps a transitional piece or a manufacturer making use of the availability of Pattern components to pair with traditional blades –30,000 of the 1804 Pattern were ordered split between ten different manufacturers in the period from 1804 to 1808, so plenty of parts would have been available from the production boom. Like other swords of this period the hanger has a low carbon tang and shoulder, forge welded to a higher carbon steel blade, and the differential aging of the two materials can be seen clearly at the transition point. The two pieces were stepped to increase the surface area of the weld: one can see the line of the weld on the spine and the iron surface extends further up the blade on the right face than the left (roughly 7 inches vs 6 inches). The blade is unsharpened with a few small dents to its edge and a slightly rolled tip (~1mm). Its surface has areas of patination, light scratching, spots of light pitting in the fuller and around the tip. The hilt and grip have the common black japanned finish, but have also been painted with an unusual tan colour. It is difficult to tell which was applied first but more of the tan remains, particularly on the inside of the hilt. Both have rubbing and flaking exposing heavily patinated iron. Slight rotational movement to the grip.