Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 16
A Cavalry Officer´s Sword A 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry sword, with 33in. curved fullered blade, partly blued and bearing etched and gilded foliate decoration, GR cypher, trophies and figure of a Light Horseman, steel regulation stirrup hilt with facetted backstrap and ferrule and ridged wooden grip (original grip-wire now largely missing), in its massive steel scabbard engraved above the top band Henry Osborn Sword Cutler, Bordesley, Near Birmingham, and letter J
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Note: This sword, and that in the next Lot, are almost certainly those of Colonel John Anstruther-Thomson, who commanded the Fife Fencible Cavalry from 1794 to 1800, and later served with the Royal Fife Yeomanry. His jacket is offered at Lot 59. Estimate £ 500-700
Sold for
£880
