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Nation : British
Local Price : £3,850.00

British 1796 Light Cavalry Sword – Sir John Moore. British 1796 Light Cavalry Sword possibly belonging to Sir John Moore KB The sword is in very good condition and has at some point been refurbished please note small area of the fish skin covered grip is missing. The blade curved and pipe backed being double edged for the last 7 inches forming a spear point. The blade is acid etched with a presentation within a panel which reads WORN BY LIEUTENANT – GENERAL SIR JOHN MOORE K.B WHEN HE WAS SLAIN BY A CANNON BALL AT THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA ON THE 16TH OF JANUARY 1809 – Now there is no way to confirm the inscription although some research was untaken by the previous owner there is no concrete proof. Reference is made to an article written by Geoff Worrall for the Antique Arms & Militaria magazine in August 1981 in which he does detail a similar sword to Lt COLONEL WILLIAM TOMKINSON 1809 – 15 and indicating the sword may have been etched as a family trophy, copy of the article is included. It is complete with matching scabbard with 2 loose rings and age wear. Please note the sword is being sold with no guarantee that the inscription is original however regardless it is a very fine example of a 1796 light cavalry officer&#acute;s sword.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3850

Mid-18th Century British Dragoon Basket Hilted Sword. An impressive example of a horseman's basket hilted back sword made for an Officer, or Trooper, of a North British / Scottish Regiment of Dragoons towards the middle and third quarter of the 18th century. These swords were issued by the Board of Ordnance to British regiments and were manufactured in the Scottish manner. They were first issued in the second quarter of the 18th century and were used during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Britain’s wars in Europe and the American Revolutionary War. The sword is a rare example of one that retains its remarkable full length blade of just over 40 inches (102 cm) designed mainly for striking downwards at opposing infantry soldiers with greater reach than the more usual blade lengths of the time could afford. Although many swords of this type are mounted with blades of shorter length, the majority of those that were originally made with this longest type were cut down. This is a rare survivor with its metal parts in extremely well preserved and undamaged condition as visible in the photographs. The fully formed basket is pierced with flanged hearts and circles in the main front and side panel guards which are also finely fretted at the edges with chevrons and merlons. One of the more usual frontal guard plates has been replaced with an oval ring in “horseman” fashion. The arms of the guard are forged onto a circle of iron into which the base of the bun shaped pommel sits. The pronounced button is integral with the pommel and not of separate manufacture. The original grip is of wood which retains its “Turk's Heads” top and bottom. It has lost its shagreen cover and wire binding. The robust single-edged blade has a thick spine and is double edged for the last 19.25 inches (48.5 cm) towards the point. It has a short ricasso and two fullers which commence 4.25 inches from the hilt. One wide broad fuller runs down the middle of the blade to the point and a second narrower fuller runs just underneath the spine to where the blade becomes double edged. Overall the sword is in fine and original condition. For a further example of this sword type see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, Boydell Press / Royal Armouries, 2005, plate F1e page 97 for a sword in the National Museums of Scotland, collection reference LA33.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3.850

British Basket Hilted Cavalry Sword Circa 1780. A very nice example of a horseman's basket hilted broad sword made for an Officer in a North British / Scottish Regiment of Dragoons in the mid second half of the 18th century. These swords were issued by the Board of Ordnance to British regiments mainly with Scottish associations and were manufactured in the traditional Scottish style. Swords of this military type were first issued towards the second quarter of the 18th century to officers and men and were used throughout the periods of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Britain's wars in Europe and the American Revolutionary War. They went out of use towards the end of the century when different regulation patterns started to appear. Subtle differences in the features of the hilt indicate that this sword is late in the production period and represents the last phase of its type. It is a rare survivor. The fully formed basket is pierced with hearts and circles in the main front and side panel guards which are also finely fretted at the edges with chevrons and merlons. One of the usual primary frontal guard plates has been replaced in this hilt design with an oval ring in the “horseman” fashion. The hilt is decorated with patterns of incised lines and grooves more profusely than is usual and the oval ring is grooved in a gadrooned manner which is unique for this sword type. These embellishments indicate that the sword is an Officer’s weapon. The arms of the guard are forged onto a circle of iron into which the base of the bun shaped pommel sits. The pronounced button is central to the pommel dome and of separate manufacture. Four grooves radiate from it flanked by narrow incised lines. The original spirally grooved grip is of hardwood and retains its shagreen cover, twisted wire binding and grooved iron ferrules top and bottom. The tapering double edged blade is of fine quality. It has a short ricasso after which a triple fuller commences and extends to a distance 7.5 inches (19 cm) from the tip. The middle fuller is slightly longer than those on its flanks. The blade is 32 inches (81.25 cm) long and overall the sword is 38.25 inches (just over 97 cm) long. Overall the sword is in fine and original condition. The metal parts are very well preserved. The hilt maintains its original profile and is without damage or repairs. For further examples of this sword type, although much plainer and slightly earlier than ours, see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, Boydell Press / Royal Armouries, 2005, plate F1e page 97, for a sword in the National Museums of Scotland, collection reference LA33, and page 125 plate F17c for one in the late Anthony Darling Collection

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,850.00

Scottish Fencibles Officers Sword c 1794. A rare basket-hilted sword for an officer of the Fencibles, 1794 circa. Single edged blade with wide fuller the spine maker marked Woolley and Co. Basket-shaped hilt with flattened bars and consisting of two halves with engraved decoration, the central part featuring the large Georgian crown, round pommel with extended tang button, and fish-skin grip secured by twisted brass wire. Information: The Fencibles from the word defencible were British regiments raised in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and in the colonies for defence against the threat of invasion during the Seven Years’ War Blade Length: 77cm Overall Length: 92cm

Nation : British
Local Price : £3.850

Early 18th Century Scottish Basket Hilted Sword of Glasgow Style. An early 18th century Scottish Basket Hilted sword. The hilt is of fine quality workmanship and is mounted with a broad Solingen made double fullered blade. The structural bars are of thick flattened rectangular section and are decorated on the outside in the distinctive “Glasgow” style with broad filed longitudinal grooves along the middle with narrower incised lines on each side. This style was developed by sword makers working in Glasgow in the second half of the 17th century and flourished until the third quarter of the 18th century. The style was also adopted by the most skilled smiths in some of the other sword making centres in Scotland and was copied by the British military for some of its own basket hilted swords made in the Scottish style in the mid-18th century. Filing and incising the bars in this manner was a time consuming and skilled task demanding many hours of work. This hilt is a fine quality example which stands out in other ways. The pierced patterns are finely and symmetrically executed. The primary guard panels at the front are pierced with an oblique quatrefoil at the centre, surrounded by flanged hearts at the sides and circles in the corners. The side guard panels and knuckle bow are pierced with flanged hearts top and bottom with two circles in the middle. Concentric cup and ring marks are applied between the quatrefoils and the circles which are repeated at the base of the side guard panels and side merlons. These marks are an early feature and help date the hilt to the early 18th century. The side guard panels and the knucklebow are applied with grooves and lines which radiate downwards and terminate in lateral grooves across the base of each. The main guard panels are filed in “Glasgow” style at the sides in the same manner as the guard bars. All of the primary and secondary guard plates are finely fretted at the edges with cusps and merlons. The forward loop guards are decorated in the “Glasgow” manner crossed with lateral grooves at the joins with the main side guard bars. The cone shaped pommel has three sets of Glasgow style grooves which radiate to the edge from the peened tang on top. The spaces between are cut with similar grooves in chevron shapes. The guard arm terminals tuck into a groove cut around the pommel just below its middle in the Scottish style. The grip is mounted on a thick leather liner and formed from a baluster shaped piece of hardwood with brass ferrules top and bottom. The slack in these ferrules indicate that the grip was once wrapped with a material, probably leather or shagreen, but is now missing. The tapering single edged blade is of fine quality. It has a short ricasso and a double fuller which runs from the hilt almost to the tip. Letters in the fullers on each side form the word SOLINGEN and refer to the famous German blade making centre where the blade was made. Like many period Scottish swords this one has seen a long working life and the blade has been adapted during its period of use. It was originally double edged and slightly broader than it is now. It has been intentionally slightly ground back along one side during its working life to create a back edge in proportion with the blade taper. The fullers are now not running along the middle as would be usual with a broad sword blade of this type, but instead, are nearer to the regressed back edge than the cutting edge because of the modification. During the early 18th century “back sword”, or single edged, blades became increasingly popular. They were less expensive to make than double edged blades and became fashionable for both clan, civilian and military markets in Scotland. The blade may have been slimmed to suit the new fashion by creating the back edge. The new back edge is decorated with a long row of small crescents intended to give more definition to the newly created spine of the blade. Alternatively, possibly the blade when double edged was damaged with nicks at its front edge through use, then refurbished at some time which involved smoothing the nicks out of the front of the blade to create the back edge, then reversing the blade in the hilt. This kind of adaptation seems to be more likely to have been carried out by a clan armourer rather than a sword maker working in the burghs. Swords with amended blades of this type, with similar profiles, are not unusual judging by the number that have survived. The sword is in russet condition with some pitting to the hilt in places. The blade is 32.25 inches long (82 cm) and the overall length of the sword is 37.25 inches (just over 94.5 cm). For swords with similar hilts see Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press, 2005, particularly those illustrated in pages 103, 107, 111 and 116 – 124.

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £3795

Click and use the code >24388 to search for this item on the dealer website Archaic Chinese Warrior´s Bronze Sword, Around 2,300 to 2,800 Years Old, From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, Including the Period of the Great Military Doctrine ´The Art of War´ by General Sun-Tzu

Nation : Italian
Local Price : 4,850.00 USD

AN ITALIAN CRAB CLAW BROADSWORD DATED 1644.. So-called crab claw form hilt after its curved cross guard. See Armi Bianche Italiane, pl.585-91 for related examples and particularly pl.586 which is closely related. Iron hilt with radially fluted shell guard and fluted pommel. Oval ring guard with scalloped medial and matching scallops to the quillon terminals. Iron wire wrapped grip. 31 ¾ d.e. blade of flattened diamond section. The front with large 1644 and the reverse with the running wolf mark chiseled. This is an infantry sword of well know type. Its blade length is calculated to optimize its effect for close hand to hand fighting. At the time, Venice was a city state which encompassed most of north of the Italian peninsula and the territories north and east of the Adriatic. It was the power which held the Ottoman Turks in check. Her fleet of over 3000 ships protected the coastline from marauding Turks and pirates both on land and at sea. This sword likely saw service aboard a ship as well as on land.

Nation : Portuguese
Local Price : £3,750.00

Pattern 1777 Land Service Flintlock Pistol made for the Portuguese Cavalry. SN R010. A pattern 1777 Land Service pistol 19&157; overall, 12&157; round pistol bore barrel with central proof marks with earlier flat Sea Service lock stamped Tower crown GR with Ordnance mark, ring neck cock, bridle-less pan, walnut full stock with Ordnance storekeeper´s and JR mark (for Portugal), long spurred butt cap, belt hook, Sea Service side plate, single ramrod pipe and ramrod (possibly original). Made up for Portuguese service. Circa 1780 Pistol in good condition, well patinated. &194;&160;Note: Great Britain supplied Portugal with ordnance pistols during and after the Napoleonic Wars. They were marked with the sovereigns cipher, either JR for Joao VI (1799-1826) or Maria I (1828-53). See page 66, British Military Pistols 1603-1888 by R.E. Brooker, Jr.&194;&160; Provenance Robert E Brooker Jr Collection author of British Military Pistols 1603-1888. Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)