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An 1805 Pattern Naval Officer's SwordBy Woolley & Deakin, Birmingham, Early 19th Century
5 July 2005, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,380 inc. premium
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By Woolley & Deakin, Birmingham, Early 19th Century
By Woolley & Deakin, Birmingham, Early 19th Century
With fullered single-edged blade (some pitting at the point) etched and gilt along each side of the forte with a sea shell and coral, a martial trophy and foliage, one side including a crowned fouled anchor, and with crowned royal arms and mottoes on the other, regulation gilt-copper stirrup hilt (gilding worn), the langets each engraved with a fouled anchor, pommel cast and chased as a lion-mask and extending to form a back-piece, and ribbed ivory grip bound with twisted copper wire, in original black leather scabbard with copper mounts retaining traces of gilding, the locket signed within a shield on one side and with frog button on the other, two suspension rings, and black leather suspension straps with two gilt-copper mounts each cast and chased with lion-masks
75 cm. blade
75 cm. blade







