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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 722

An Officer's 1796 Pattern Infantry Sword

of standard form, the straight steel blade single-edged, narrowing to double-edged 190mm from the point, engraved with the name J J Runkel Solingen on its back edge at the forte and overall with martial trophies, the crowned Royal Cypher GR and the Royal Arms of the period 1801-16; the hilt of gilded yellow-metal alloy, its inner shell folding towards the blade (the flat retaining-spring absent), the wooden grip wound with silver wire (now loose); some wear to gilding of hilt and staining and corrosion to blade; overall length 975mm, blade length 810mm.

The life and career John Justus Runkel (1740-1828) is discussed at length in Dellar (op. cit.), chapter 25, pp. 270-279; based in London, he was an importer of sword blades from Solingen who was in business c. 1778-1808.

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