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Nation : British
Local Price : £5,650.00

Household Cavalry Officers Officers Sword c 1805. Household Cavalry Officers Officers Sword although referred to as 1814 model this example is slightly different to the regulation pattern. This actual sword is detailed in the book, The British Cavalry Sword 1788 “ 1912 by Richard Dellar page 202 plate 20.12.The description is as follows: A sword with a similar in detail to the Prussian Cuirassier Officers Model 1797 sword but with a central device of the British Royal Crest instead of the Prussian eagle. This type of hilt is thought to date from around 1805. The sword is in very good condition no damage to the basket and the bound leather grip shows slight wear, it is complete with brass scabbard with two narrow slots covered with fish skin note lower ring missing. Overall length 103cm the blade 88.5cm

Nation : British
Local Price : £5,650.00

Loyal North British Volunteers Officers Sword c 1790. Loyal North British Volunteers Officers Sword c 1790 a very rare sword in stunning condition. English half basket infantry officers back sword with polished mounts highly decorative pommel and tang button, the hilt with curved bars supporting the Georgian crown with thistle below and the motto Pro aris et focis – for hearth and home. The straight blade single edged becoming double towards the tip, with two fullers the top one marked ANDRIA FARARA. Complete with red liner possible a later replacement overall length 100cm the blade 83.5cm Notes: The Loyal North British Volunteers were a regiment of ex “ patriots Scots based in Knightsbridge. For reference please see Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland by Bezdek page 242

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5650

Click and use the code >24338 to search for this item on the dealer website Captivating Shinto Era Wakizashi, Circa 1650, Signed Fuyuhiro. A Wonderful and Elegant Edo Period Sword of Exceptional Sophistication.

Nation : Italian
Local Price : 7,100.00 USD

FINE NORTH ITALIAN RAPIER C.1640-60. Milanese or Brescian. Iron hilt with double shell guards pierced with birds in foliage flanking portrait medallions. The shell edges and knuckle bow with scrolling foliage and ribbed central swells. Portrait medallion to the quillon block. The pommel with two portrait medallions on scrolling foliage ground. Fine copper and brass wire wrapped grip. 36 3/4" blade with fuller at the forte pierced with circles and key slots and stopped with a mark. Flattened diamond section blade with slightly concave edges and four facets to the flats, below the marks. Exceptional condition. The blade crisp with mottled patina. Hilt undoubtedly plated originally.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5450

Click and use the code >23637 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Rare WW1 German Airship Bataillon ´Luftschiffer´ Regt. Nr.1 Officer&#acute;s Sword, of the Elite Imperial German Kaiser´s Zeppelin and Airship Guarde Infantry, Only The Second We Have Seen in 30 Years

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5450

Click and use the code >25331 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Fine Antique, Ancestral Chisa Katana Sword in Crew Gunto Mounts Signed Jumyo, Shinto. Swords By Jumyo Were Very Often Gifted to Noble Family Daimyo, As They Were Considered Very Auspicious

Nation : British
Local Price : £5300

Rare Scottish Highland Military Officers’ Basket Hilted Sword dating to circa 1750-1760. A fine Scottish Basket Hilted Sword made for an officer in a Highland Infantry Regiment in the middle of the 18th century. The sword is very much an “attic find” in untouched original and uncleaned condition. The sword is of higher quality than those produced for enlisted men. It was probably made in Glasgow or Stirling which were the two main centres producing swords in Scotland at this time. This is a rare sword in that one of the side guard plates is formed as a thistle inside a garland with a closed crown above. We are aware of only one other example of this sword type which is in the J D Forman Collection and is illustrated in Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, 2005, The Boydell Press, page 136, fig G1, The sword dates to the early period of the Highland Regiments and may have been used in North America in the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763) and in the American Revolutionary War (1775 to 1783) in which Highland regiments were engaged . The sword hilt is a robust example formed from well forged and nicely rounded structural bars. The two frontal guard plates are finely pierced with flanged hearts at the sides and circles in the corners and in the middle, within a border created by incised fluted lines just inside the edges of the plates. The knuckle bow and one side guard are also incised with vertical flutes and pierced with flanged hearts and circles. The pommel is cone shaped with an integral button on top. It is engraved with chevrons of fluted lines similar to those cut into the guard panels. The tops of the three arms of the guard are forged onto a ring into which the neck of the pommel sits. The grip is made of spirally grooved wood mounted with a covering of shagreen and bound with silver riband and mounted with iron bands top and bottom. The hilt retains its original full leather liner with the remains of red cloth stitched to the front and a blue silken hem. The double edged tapering blade is 31.5 inches (80 cm) long. It has a pronounced ricasso from the end of which two fullers run along the middle of the blade and terminate 6 inches (15 cm) from the tip. The bladesmith’s mark of ANDRIA FARARA is cut into the fullers near the hilt indicating that the blade is an import into the UK from one of the European blade making centres such as Solingen. The overall length of the sword is 37.75 inches (96 cm). Overall the iron and steel parts are in good condition with mottled patination as can be seen in the photographs below.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5250

English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. A fine English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century and the English Civil War, Commonwealth and Protectorate periods. The hilt of this sword is of typical form consisting of a broad saucer-shaped guard plate from which three main curved flattened guard bars taper upwards ending with flattened angled terminals screwed into the pommel. The sword is notable because of its robust build, fine condition and the higher than average quality of the chiselled decoration. The convex surface of the guard plate is covered with the finely executed busts of eight men, four located either side of the blade. Two, opposite each other, are wigged figures, probably judges. The others have a more grotesque appearance. The remaining spaces are filled with panels of delicate foliage and fine swirling tendrils. The pommel is decorated in the same foliate style. Two downward facing bars emanate from each side of the knuckle bow towards its middle and join the base of each side guard bar to add strength to the structure. The base of each side guard bar is strengthened with a fishtail or merlon terminal which joins the bars to the dish. The downwardly curled ribbed wrist guard strengthens the rear edge of the plate. The guard bars are decorated with chiselled lines. The pommel is globular in shape and has an integral button on top and a pronounced flared neck beneath. The grip is wrapped with a leather binding which covers the original grip covering of surface mounted wire. The base sits on an iron flanged plug mounted onto the inside of the guard plate from which two langets extend through the tang aperture to flank the blade either side for a short distance below the hilt. The single-edged blade has a pronounced fullered ricasso. A broad shallow fuller runs from the hilt underneath the blunt spine of the blade and terminates a short distance from the tip after which the blade is double edged. A second shorter fuller of similar width opposite the first runs each side for the length of the ricasso after which the main cutting edge of the blade begins. An unknown Blade Maker's stamp is applied on each side within the fuller as is an orb and cross mark a short distance away. The blade was probably made in Solingen in Germany. Huge numbers of blades were imported into Britain during the Civil War period to fulfil demand for swords on both Royalist and Parliamentarian sides. The blade is 33.75 inches long (86 cm) and overall the sword measures 40 inches (101.5 cm) long. Stuart C Mowbray in “British Military Swords”, Mowbray Publishing, 2013, dedicates a section to Mortuary Swords in pages 178 to 225, as does Cyril Mazansky, in “British Basket Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press 2005, Chapter 11, pages 233 to 280. The similarities between the engraved patterns on the hilts of the swords illustrated in these books and our sword, although they are all somewhat different, shows that the quality of chiselling and engraving present on our sword is of superior quality compared to most other than those known to have been commissioned for nobility of one form or another. This sword is of a style which does not adopt the secondary rear guard bars which appear on some mortuary swords which extend downwards from the side guard bars to fix on the guard plate nearer to the wrist guard edge. The robust and broad expanse of the guard of this sword dispenses with the need as can be seen in the examples present in Mowbray and Mazansky.