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Lot 86

A 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry Officer's Sword
By Thos. Gill, Warranted Never To Fail, Dated 1798

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry Officer's Sword
By Thos. Gill, Warranted Never To Fail, Dated 1798

With curved fullered blade double-edged at the point, etched along one side with maker's details and date on a shield suspended from a ribbon, a cavalryman on horseback, royal arms, the figure of Victory and a plant in an urn supported by putti, and along the other with the figure of Britannia, crowned 'GR' cypher beneath a baldachin, a martial trophy and foliage, regulation russet steel hilt with variant rounded pommel and back-piece in one, stirrup knuckle-guard pierced for a sword-knot, lobed rear quillon, shield-shaped langets, and ribbed leather-covered grip (leather perished) bound with twisted copper wire, in original steel scabbard with two split-rings for suspension (some rust patination and light pitting)
84 cm. blade

Footnotes

For more information regarding Thomas Gill see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords..., 2001, pp. 116-117

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