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A Naval Officer's Sword Of Captain George Christopher PullingDated 1803
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Dated 1803
Dated 1803
83 cm. blade
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Offered with three contemporary portrait miniatures of members of the Pulling family. Two on ivory by Frederick Buck (Irish, 1771-circa 1840), one believed to be the owner of the sword. The larger central miniature on paper (English School, circa 1820): each in a gilt oval frame mounted into a common ebonised frame, the back with partly legible handwritten paper labels; a gold-mounted fob seal embossed and chased with foliage, the amethyst seal with bezel edges and cut with the Pulling coat-of-arms, a gold propelling pencil set with a shield-shaped bloodstone seal cut with the Pulling crest, and two foliate engraved gilt-mounted pocket watch keys with amethyst and agate seal respectively and each cut with the Pulling crest
George Christopher Pulling was born in 1766 and joined the Navy in 1780. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1790 and in 1792, whilst serving in Newfoundland, he investigated the poor relationships between the settlers and the native Beothuk Indians. He recorded violent acts against the Indians and fostered better relations between them and the settlers.
In 1798 he attained the rank of Commander and in 1801 while in command of the Brig Kangaroo (18), in the company of the Sparrow (14) commanded by the intrepid Lord Cochrane, attacked a Spanish convoy sheltering in Old Castille. They destroyed a shore battery, sunk or drove off seven gun boats and carried off three brigs laden with rice, wine and bread.
He was promoted to Captain in 1802 and died in 1819. There is a monument to him in St. Arvans Church, Monmouthshire








