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A Rare 1788 Pattern Household Cavalry Officer's Frock Sword
Late 18th Century

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 1788 Pattern Household Cavalry Officer's Frock Sword
Late 18th Century

With fullered tapering single-edged blade, steel basket hilt comprising slotted oval guard with a pair of small S-shaped bars on each side and drawn-up to form the fluted knuckle-guard, joined on each side by three multi-faceted scrolled bars, the outer and middle ones linked to each other by a short S-shaped bar, faceted ovoidal pommel with turned button, and fabric-covered wooden grip (worn) spirally bound with twisted copper wire
79 cm. blade

Footnotes

Household cavalry officers carried swords of the same generic pattern as those carried by the heavy cavalry line regiments. They also carried a lighter version of which this appears to be an example, intended for dismounted and off-duty wear referred to as a frock sword. See Brian Robson, Swords of the British Army. Revised Edition, 1996, p. 126. For a very similar sword in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (No. 751) and probably the one refered to in a letter from Frederick, Duke of York to George, Prince of Wales in April 1782, see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 200 ID3 (illustrated)

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