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Auction: 22003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 494

(x) The highly detailed Coronation Sword blade, produced for Haile Selassie I, as a sample for the new Emperor of Abyssinia

Coronation Flame Sword Blade, by Wilkinson Sword, 840mm x 57mm, gold and copper finished, in its original canvas scabbard, good very fine and rare

Ex-Nigel Haines Collection.

This is one of just three examples produced for the Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie at Addis on 2 November 1930; sold together with an original Wilkinson Sword design advertisement depicting a run of Abyssinian Blades including the Coronation Sword.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£2,200

Starting price
£520