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Lot 50

A Scottish Officer's Silver-Mounted Regimental Dirk Of The 92nd Gordon Highlanders
Late 19th Century

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Scottish Officer's Silver-Mounted Regimental Dirk Of The 92nd Gordon Highlanders
Late 19th Century

With bright fullered blade (areas of rust patination) notched and fullered along the back, etched with crowned regimental badge above a martial trophy along one side, and with the figure of St. Andrew between thistles along the other, ebonised baluster grip carved with basket-weave set with silver studs, basal mount chased with thistles, and foliate openwork pommel set with a piece of faceted glass against foil, in original wood-lined black patent leather scabbard with border engraved silver mounts set with thistles, the locket with regimental badge for Egypt, the by-knife and fork en suite with the hilt; together with a commemorative dagger adapted from a socket bayonet, the blade (some pitting) of hollow triangular section stamped with a crowned '5' on one side, silver-mounted brass grip engraved 'BLADENSBURG 1814' along one side and 'XXI F.T' along the other, and engraved with a crowned lion rampant in a shield above 'XXI' on the outer side, in its silver scabbard with suspension mount (2)
28 cm. and 42 cm. blades

Footnotes

The Battle of Bladensburg was fought on 24 August 1814 during the Chesapeake Campaign during the War of 1812. A British force of army regulars and Royal Marines routed an American force of regulars and militia troops. The defeat resulted in the capture and burning of the national capital, Washington D.C., the only time the city fell to a foreign invader

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