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A Rare English Ormolu-Hilted Officer's Sword, Probably Belonging To Sir Thomas Pennyman, Colonel Of The Cleveland regiment Of The North Yorkshire Militia
Late 17th Century

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare English Ormolu-Hilted Officer's Sword, Probably Belonging To Sir Thomas Pennyman, Colonel Of The Cleveland regiment Of The North Yorkshire Militia
Late 17th Century

With tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section over the forte, the latter on one side etched with a coat-of-arms, a stork in flight above and an armed standing male figure in contemporary costume beneath, and on the other with a rectangular panel inscribed 'Shotley. Bridg' and surmounted by a lion rampant (worn), hilt of similar form to the last, cast and chased in low relief with St. George and the Dragon framed by wreaths on each side of the double shell-guard and pommel, grip bound with three thicknesses of twisted silver-gilt wire between Turk's heads (upper one missing), and retaining much original gilding
83.1 cm. blade

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Ormesby Hall, North Yorkshire, seat of the Pennyman family, is only some thirty miles from Shotley Bridge, County Durham. Sir William Pennyman, 1st Baronet (1607-46) was a supporter of King Charles I and served as a member of the Council of the North and as an officer of the Star Chamber. He was created a Baronet by Charles on 6 May 1628 and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire from 1635-36. In 1638 he raised a Regiment of Foot to assist in the war against the Scots. He was Member of Parliament for Richmond but was barred from sitting in 1642. At the commencement of the English Civil War he again raised, together with his half-brother James, a Regiment of Foot serving as Colonel. He led the regiment at the Battle of Nottingham and at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. The coat-of-arms on the blade appears to confirm that his son Sir Thomas (1642-1705) was the owner of this sword. He served as Colonel of the Cleveland regiment of the North Yorkshire Militia, and was Sheriff of Yorkshire between 1702 and 1703

In 1687-88, a consortium of English merchants established a sword-blade manufactory, staffed by a group of immigrant Solingen bladesmiths, at Shotley Bridge, County Durham. It declined during the 18th century but survived until the second quarter of the 19th century. See David Richardson, 'The Swordmakers of Shotley Bridge', Northern History Booklet, No. 37, 1973

For a sword with a very similar hilt and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 11 May 2016, lot 334

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