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Lot 89*

A Scottish Artillery Officer's Presentation Sword
By Hobson & Son, Artillery Place, Woolwich, Dated 1870

24 April 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish Artillery Officer's Presentation Sword
By Hobson & Son, Artillery Place, Woolwich, Dated 1870

With slightly curved fullered blade etched with symmetrical designs of foliage over most of its length on each side, one side involving crowned 'VR' cypher above a field gun, and on the other with winged thunderbolts and the presentation inscription on a banner, white-metal three-bar hilt cast and chased with oak leaves and acorns on the outside, pommel and back-piece en suite, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, and retaining its silver bullion sword-knot, in its white-metal scabbard engraved with foliated strapwork and with two rings for suspension
81.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

The presentaion inscription reads: 'Presented To Captain Emslie Of The 4th A.V.A. By The Corps as A Mark Of Their Esteem, Ardrossan, 4th March 1870.'

John Emslie was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant of the 4th Ayrshire Artillery Volunteers (Ardrossan) on 3 March 1860, and was promoted straight to the rank of Captain on 27 April 1867. He is recorded as 'gone' by November 1874

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