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A Fine And Rare Irish Silver-Gilt And Enamel Hilted Presentation Sabre To Captn. Jeremiah D'Olier By The Company Of The 1st Regiment Of The Royal Dublin VolunteersDublin Silver Hallmarks For 1798, Maker's Mark Of George West
24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,584 inc. premium
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A Fine And Rare Irish Silver-Gilt And Enamel Hilted Presentation Sabre To Captn. Jeremiah D'Olier By The Company Of The 1st Regiment Of The Royal Dublin Volunteers
Dublin Silver Hallmarks For 1798, Maker's Mark Of George West
Dublin Silver Hallmarks For 1798, Maker's Mark Of George West
With curved fullered blade (some old rust patination) brightly etched against a matt ground along one side with the recipient's crest and motto, the seated figure of Hibernia in an oval with a ship in the distance, surmounted by a martial trophy and with foliage suspended from a ribbon below, a regimental badge and pre-1801 royal arms beneath a baldachin suspended from an elaborate symmetrical design of foliage framing a vase of flowers above a feline mask, and along the other with a martial trophy, a volunteer officer and fortification in an oval supported by a figure of Britannia and a wildman, Victory being crowned with laurel above, the presentation inscription, a crowned regimental badge against a further martial trophy and a symmetrical arrangement of foliage, stirrup hilt comprising shield-shaped langet polychrome enamelled respectively with the engraved arms of the recipient and crowned regimental badge, lobed rear quillon inscribed '4th Company' against a dark blue enamel ground on each side, bevelled knuckle-guard pierced with a slot for a sword-knot, pommel formed as a cavalryman's plumed helmet and with faceted back-piece in one, ribbed ivory grip (old chips beneath the pommel and minor old splits) bound with twisted silver wire, and retaining most of its original gilding
82 cm. blade
82 cm. blade
Footnotes
The presentation inscription reads: 'THE GIFT of the non commission'd OFFICERS and PRIVATES of the FIRST REG.MT of ROYAL DUBLIN VOLUNTEERS to their Capt.n JEREMIAH D'OLIER as a Mark of their ESTEEM.'
Jeremiah D'Olier was a Huguenot goldsmith who settled in Dublin and became a city sheriff and one of the founders of the Bank of Ireland. D'Olier Street in Dublin is named after him








