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Lot 524
VISCOUNT TRENCHARD'S ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS SWORD. A Royal Scots Fusiliers Field Officer's Sword with an 82.5cm 'Claymore type' pointed double edged blade with partial double fuller. The blade with etched markings for the 'Royal Scots Fusiliers' above crossed thistles and foliate scrolling decoration, marked by "J .. Johnston Sackville Street, London and Dublin". The blade possibly remounted in a pierced scrolling and lined 'basket' hilt, with wire bound grip and rounded pommel, with red tasselled fringe. With a polished steel scabbard with double ring suspension, 103cm overall length and an additional leather covered service scabbard. Hugh Trenchard was Colonel in Chief of the Royal Scots Fusiliers between 1919 and 1946. Had Hugh Trenchard (1873-1956) not become universally remembered as the 'Father of the RAF' he would deserve to be remembered for his place in military history as an Officer in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in September 1893 he saw service as a Captain in the Boer War suffering at the hands of a Boer ambush and receiving a bullet wound to the chest. He returned to England barley walking with two sticks and lacking much of one lung, his military career may well have been over, however he was not the sort to let disability get in the way and he enjoyed tobogganing on the Cresta Run whilst recovering in Switzerland. He attacked the run with the same approach he took to all life's challenges, head on giving it his all, one of his regular crashes resulted in a freak impact to his spine which put his legs back in working order and enabled him to regain sufficient health to continue with his military career. Before his involvement with flying from 1912 he spent a significant period of time with the West African Frontier Force (24 Oct 1903 - 3 Nov 1910) sorting out tribal conflicts and barbaric practices amongst the warring tribes of Southern Nigeria. Rising to the rank of temporary Lieutenant Colonel and being awarded the DSO for his part in commanding the expedition in the Bende-Onitsha Hinterland of Southern Nigeria. Trenchard's biographer, Russell Miller, portrays him as a strict, highly energetic and driven officer who spoke his mind at all times and was loved by those men who followed him into battle. Provenance: The first Viscount Trenchard and by direct descent in the family.
Lot 525
A SECOND WORLD WORD JAPANESE "GENERAL'S SWORD". A Second World War Japanese Katana with a 65cm sharpened single edged blade, with a pierced gilt metal tsuba and similar sword mounts, with a bound fish skin handle. In a khaki scabbard with single ring suspension. 95cm overall length. With a paper label attached "Japanese General's Sword surrendered 1945. Presented to Lord Trenchard by Lord Louis Mountbatten". Provenance: The first Viscount Trenchard and by direct descent in the family.
Lot 526
VISCOUNT TRENCHARD'S GEORGE V OFFICER'S MAMELUKE SWORD AND SCABBARD. An 1831 Pattern general officer's sword with shaped ivory mounted grip with rosette fastenings. The cross bar with crossed batons in a cartouche. The 84cm curved blade with double edged point, etched decoration and George V cypher, Unmarked but numbered 4594. In a steel scabbard and with decorative sword knot. Photographs of Viscount Trenchard in his uniform as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Force, a position he held between 1931 and 1935 show him with a sword of this design. Presumably the same sword. An image of Viscount Trenchard in this uniform can be seen amongst the illustrations between pages 258 and 259 of Russell Miller's biography 'Boom'. Trenchard served as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police between October 1931 and November 1935, he had not particularly wanted the job, but following a personal request from the Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and the King he agreed. The Metropolitan Police were in a poor state when he took over, things had remained unchanged for years, conditions were poor and corruption rife. Trenchard with organisational skills, energy, adherence to discipline and concern for those working under him was absolutely the right man for the job. During his spell in charge he introduced reforms that did much to modernize the force and training regimes that would see it survive in the rapidly changing inter-war world. Provenance: The first Viscount Trenchard and by direct descent in the family.
Lot 527
A CEREMONIAL SWORD AND SCABBARD. A ceremonial sword with an 83.5 cm tapering pointed blade, scrolling cross bar and wire wrapped handle and pierced octagonal pommel. In a red velvet scabbard with applied scrolling and sequin decoration. 111cm overall length. Provenance: The first Viscount Trenchard and by direct descent in the family.
Lot 528
A VICTORIAN WILKINSON'S 1845/54 PATTERN OFFICERS SWORD. A fine Wilkinson's Infantry Officer's Sword, the 81.5cm partially fuller pointed blade with VR cyphers to either side amongst finely etched foliate decoration marked 'Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London' and numbered 9685 to the back suggesting a date of 1859. The hilt with decorative VR cypher above roses and with wire bound handle and stepped pommel. With steel scabbard.100cm overall length. Provenance: The first Viscount Trenchard and by direct descent in the family.
Lot 529
A WILKINSON FIGHTING KNIFE NAMED TO MAJOR RICHARD HUBBERSTY OF THE 89th REGIMENT. A bone handled fighting knife by Wilkinson of Pall Mall with a 21.5cm 'bowie' style blade stamped H. Wilkinson 27 Pall Mall and named R.N. Hubbersty 89th Regiment within a rectangular field with scrolling ends. The blade sharpened. In a leather scabbard marked in ink 'Hubbersty 89th R' 35cm overall length. Burke's Landed Gentry record Richard Nathan Hubbersty (known as Nathan) as being born on the 3rd of May 1839, he was commissioned into the 89th Regiment of Foot as and Ensign on the 24th September 1858, and a Lieutenant from April 1861 at which time the census record him being a resident of Umballa where the regiment was stationed. Fever and Cholera decimated the men and it seems likely that Hubbersty had a period of prolonged sick leave which he spent in New Zealand. He is recorded as being in New Zealand from 1866 helping a friend by the name of Theodore Hurt at his farm on the Selwyn River near Canterbury on the South Island. He is believed to have returned to the U.K. in 1868. During his absence from the 89th which had been raised in Dublin in 1793 as a reaction to the French Revolution, and which saw service in the Crimea and India amongst other places, becoming the 89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot. He was raised to the rank of Captain in June 1869, In 1870 the regiment was stationed in Madras, in November 1872 it marched into Bangalore. From 1876 they were in British Burma. Hubbersty became a Major on July 1st 1881 and an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel on 11th April 1885 by which time he was on retired pay. He died unmarried in Cornwall on December 1st 1886 at the age of 47. Provenance: The first Viscount Trenchard and by direct descent in the family.
Lot 531
BORNEO HEAD HUNTERS SWORD AND SCABBARD. An unusual Head Hunters Sword (mandau) with elaborate carved wooden hilt in the form of an animals head from which is mounted hair, with a woven grip and curved and shaped 48.5cm blade. The wooden scabbard with panels of interlacing carved decoration and of bound construction. 62cm overall.
Lot 532
BORNEO HEAD HUNTERS SWORD AND SCABBARD. An unusual Head Hunters Sword (mandau) with elaborate carved bone hilt from which is mounted two plumes of dark hair, with a woven grip set with four coins, the curved and shaped 50.5cm blade with spot decoration and decorative detailing to the back. The wooden scabbard with decoratively bound fixings, mounted with three further coins including a Dutch 10 guilder coin dated 1942 (some of the coins possibly recent replacements), with an attached horn handled implement in palm leaf sheath, with woven rattan carrying strap. 71cm overall.
Lot 535
A VICTORIAN FLINTSHIRE RIFLES SWORD BY FIRMIN OF LONDON. An 1827 Pattern Rifle Officers sword by Firmin & Sons, 153 Strand and 13 Conduit Street London, with a 83.5cm fullered single sided blade, previously sharpened, with etched decoration and marked with Victorian Royal Initials beneath a Crown and 'Flintshire Rifles'. The steel hilt with a slung bugle beneath a crown, with wire bound grip. 97cm, in a later scabbard.
Lot 537
A BRITISH 1827 PATTERN NAVAL SWORD BY WILKINSON. An 1827 pattern Naval Officers Swird with wire and fish skin effect grip and lions head pommel and gilt folding guard with fouled anchor. With an 80cm etched blade 'Supplied by Defence Group' and 'M III R' This sword apparently supplied to Swaziland in 1936. With a leather and brass mounted scabbard and later dress knot. 97cm total length.
Lot 538
A SECOND WORLD WAR JAPANESE OFFICERS SWORD. A World War Two Japanese Army Officers Shin Gunto Sword, with a 71.5 cm blade, bound handle and decorative pierced tsuba in a leather covered scabbard. According to family tradition this sword is believed to have been surrendered at the official ceremony of Japanese surrender to Admiral Mountbatten in Singapore in 1945.
Lot 539
A MID 19TH CENTURY ROYAL ENGINEERS, DRIVERS SWORD. Also known as a 'German Sword Cavalry Universal, 1889 Pattern. The sword with a curved blade with spear point and fullers, with various marks include S&K for Schinitzler and Kirschbaum who traded between 1811 and 1865, with British Board of Ordnance inspectors stamp for Liege c1860, German marks, crown over F.W., also with 'sold out of service' marks. Steel pommel and backstrap, wooden grips replaced. Lacking scabbard, blade 88cm, 101cm overall. See Charles Martyn, 'British Cavalry Swords from 1600', p127, ill 96. and Robson Page, 'Sword of the British Army (Revised Edition), pp237-8.
Lot 540
A YEOMANRY CAVALRY OFFICER'S SWORD C.1800. An early 19th century Yeomanry Cavalry Officer's Sword with a curved blade with fullers and hatchet point, with traces of decoration to both sides, with a flat back, the hilt with stirrup shaped handguard with lange to crossguard and replaced quillon, the backstrap and pommel decorated with lion's head and mane, the grips in ivory with twelve lines of multi-strand wire. Scabbard lacking, blade 77cm, overall 90cm. See Harvey Withers, 'British Military Swords 1786 - 1912' p113.
Lot 541
A 1788 PATTERN CAVALRY SWORD. A 1788 Pattern Light Cavalry Sword with curved blade with fullers to the point, the hilt and crossguard in brass with forward quillon, the crossguard with double lancets, with a round securing nut on the pommel, with bone grips. Lacking scabbard, blade 74.5cm, 89cm overall. See Charles Martyn, 'The British Cavalry Sword from 1600', p 59.
Lot 542
A BORNEO HEAD HUNTERS SWORD. A highly decorative head hunters sword, the grip with three plumes of dark hair on a carved bone handle with woven raffia grip, the shaped blade with a single edge and decoratively pierced and scrolled back and traces of gilt decoration. The Scabbard mounted with panels of carved bone decoration with exotic faces amongst scroll work, divided by panels of woven rafia, the reverse mounted with a smaller knife with 'head' handle and small blade. The blade 50cm, Presented to to the vendor's husband in Sarawak.
Lot 545
AN 1821 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY SWORD. An 1821 pattern light cavalry sword by H. Marshall of Worcester. The 81.5cm blade marked 'H. Marshall Worcester', 'Proved', the blade with spear point, fullers and scrolling decoration, with a wire bound grip, stepped pommel and swept quillon, In a service scabbard. 103cm overall length.
Lot 547
19THC SOCIETY SWORD & SCABBARD probably American, with a gilt brass and ivory hilt, with Eagle head pommel and Eagle cross guard. The blade with the remains of some etched decoration and vestiges of bluing, the blade with fullers to the point and flat back. With a gilt brass scabbard. 93cms long, Blade 78cms long
Lot 549
A NAVAL OFFICER'S SWORD BY GIEVES. An Elizabeth II Naval Officers Sword by Gieves of London. The 78cm pointed blade etched to both sides with fouled anchor and royal crest within rope and leaves, marked 'Gieves'. With gilt guard and knot, the catch engraved 'G.Wighton'. 92 cm total length. With scabbard, belt with sword hanging straps and travelling cover.
Lot 550A
A CAVALRY TROOPERS' 1882 PATTERN SWORD. An 1882 Pattern Cavalry Troopers Swrod with a curving pointed 87.5cm partially fullered blade marked /86 'Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie Solingen' with WD and arrow, varius other marks and 'YC' with leather mounted grip and 'Maltese Cross' piercing to the hand guard, in scabbard with opposing suspension rings.
Lot 552
A VICTORIAN CAVALRY SWORD BY WILKINSON OF LONDON. An 1821/22 pattern Cavalry Sword, the 89 cm blade decorated with Royal coat of arms and owners conjoined initials and heraldic devices, marked Henry Wilkinson Pall Mall, London, and numbered to the back '31857' suggesting a date c1892. The handle with 3 bar hilt, shagreen grip and later sword knot. With a steel scabbard with twin ring suspension. 105cm overall length.
Lot 553
A NINETEENTH CENTURY GERMAN SWORD AND SCABBARD. The curved sword with a pointed tip and fuller with a number of partially erased marks, with a leather grip and steel guard stamped 1920, the steel scabbard with single loop suspender and stamped initials R.A.I. 4. 75 and 9l. R.A.1.24. Blade 75cm, overall 92cm long.
Lot 554
A GEORGE V CAVALRY STYLE INFANTRY SWORD WITH GILT HANDLE. A George V 1822 Pattern sword with a 86.5cm blade with partial fuller and central point to the tip, etched with Royal cipher and ASC beneath a crown, marked to the back 'London Made'. With a three bar gilt hilt, in a leather covered service scabbard. 103cm overall length.
Lot 556
A WILKINS OF LONDON 1856 PATTERN PIONEER SWORD AND SCABBARD. The 57cm pointed blade with saw edge, stamped 'Wilkinson London' 6 '98 for June 1898 with varous other marks and an 'X'. The brass handle marked 6 1900 1.CR 5 above the quillon. With a leather and brass scabbard marked 1.97 2 OX 6. 71cm overall length'
Lot 558A
AN 1827 RIFLE VOLUNTEERS SWORD AND SCABBARD. The sword with an 81.5cm slightly curved fullered blade with crown and crossed palm decoration, marked 'Rifle Volunteers' the open hilt with crowned and suspended bugle decoration, the grip with wire bound fish skin and a stepped pommel. With steel scabbard with double ring suspension. 99cm.
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