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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 723

An Officer's 1796 Pattern Infantry Sword

of standard form, the straight steel blade single-edged, narrowing to double-edged 210mm from the point, engraved on its faces WOOLLEY & DEAKIN'S and Warranted and overall with martial trophies, the crowned Royal Cypher GR, the Royal Arms of the period 1801-16 and a depiction of a contemporary infantry officer; the hilt of gilded yellow-metal alloy, with fixed shells but missing its pommel button, the wooden grip wound with silver wire (now loose); wear and scratching to gilding of hilt and extensive corrosion to blade; overall length 970mm, blade length 820mm.

The partnership of James Woolley and Thomas Deakin, sword cutlers of Birmingham, is discussed in Lankester, P., 'New light on the partnership of James Woolley and Thomas Deakin', Arms & Armour, Vol. I, pp. 159-164 (Leeds, 2004). The partnership existed from 1790, with Deakin as the junior partner - whose name as such appeared in Birmingham trade directories after 1800; in 1809, the two partners were joined by two others (Dellar, op. cit. p. 40).



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