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Lot 195

An Ormolu Paper-Knife Formed As An 1834 Pattern 2nd Life Guards Officer's Dress Sword
Retailed By Hopkins, 22 New Bond Street, Second Half Of The 19th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £600 inc. premium

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An Ormolu Paper-Knife Formed As An 1834 Pattern 2nd Life Guards Officer's Dress Sword
Retailed By Hopkins, 22 New Bond Street, Second Half Of The 19th Century

With fullered single-edged blade engraved on one side at the forte with crowned flaming grenade above conjoined 'LG2' and crossed sprigs of laurel and palm above a proof star, hilt of regulation form comprising half-basket guard cast with a flaming grenade and scrollwork beneath three scrolled side-bars swept-up to meet the knuckle-guard, pommel-cap cast with a winged grenade above thunder-bolts, and simulated wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its scabbard with chape and reeded suspension mounts, the latter each carrying a suspension ring, and retaining most of its original gilding
21 cm. blade, 29.3 cm. overall

Footnotes

Offered with a handwritten card claiming that this paperknife was made at the request of Lady Marion Bourne (daughter of the 3rd Marquis of Ely), widow of Col. Sir James Dyson Bourne, Colonel of the 5th Dragoon Guards, from the scabbard of his dress sword

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