British 1796 pattern infantry officer's dress sword with parts of the original scabbard, the blued and gilded blade with engraved decoration, the folding guard with silver wire grip handle. Formerly the property of Major General Paul Anderson and acquired by the present owner from one of Anderson's descendants.Major General Paul Anderson was appointed Ensign in the 51st Foot on the 31st March 1788 and to Lieutenant on the 31st March 1791. In 1792 he went to Gibraltar and after staying there for two years he embarked for Toulon. He then went to Corsica, and was present at the storming of Convention redoubts, Mozelle Fort, and the siege of Calvi. On the 1st of July 1795 he was promoted to a company in the 4th West India Regiment. He was appointed Brigade Major to Sir J.Moore in the West Indies, and employed in the storming of Morne Chapot in St.Lucia, where he received a severe contusion in the side. He also was at the taking of Morne Fortunee, in repulsing the enemy's sortie, and in the final reduction of that place. He was employed during the whole of the brigand war under Sir J.Moore. He served in Ireland during the rebellion, and was present at the battle of Foukes Hill and the retaking of Wexford. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Sir J.Moore in the expedition to Holland, and was present at the first landing, and in the battles of the 10th of September and 2nd October.He also served as aide-de-camp to Sir J.Moore on the expedition to Egypt, and was present at the first landing, and in the battles of the 13th and 21st March. In the latter he received a shot in his right arm, which deprived him of full use of it, and obliged him to return home. On the 25th May 1796, he was removed from the 4th West India Regiment to a company in the 31st Foot; on the 25th June 1801 he was promoted to a Major in the 9th Foot, and on the 17th October 1805 obtained a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the Nova Scotia Fencibles, from which he was removed to the 60th Foot on the 14th January 1808. He accompanied Sir J.Moore to Sicily in 1806 as Assistant Adjutant-General; and was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General to the army destined for Sweden; Assistant Adjutant-General to Sir J.Moore's division in Portugal; and Deputy Adjutant-General on Sir J.Moore being appointed Commander-in-Chief; and Commandant at head-quarters, in which situation he remained till the battle of Corunna. He next served as Assistant Adjutant-General to General Graham's division in the expedition to Walcheren, and was at the siege of Flushing. He served at Malta as Deputy Adjutant-General. He received the brevet of Colonel on the 4th June 1813, and Major-General on the 12th August 1819. He then went on half-pay on the 60th Foot.He was for twenty one years the friend and companion in arms of Sir John Moore
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George V British Infantry officer's sword 1895 pattern, 1897 version with turned-down inner guard, shagreen and silver twist wire grip, three quarter basket hilt with George V cypher, acid etched blade with Royal Engineers Star marked Hawkes & Co, Saville Row, London and blade stamped number 8175. By repute formerly property of Major B A E Maude, Royal Engineers, in chrome plated scabbard
An US Civil War Army sword and full belt rig, complete with sword, blade etched with 'US Army' and 'E Pluribus Unum' with Eagle, blade length 78cm, with wire bound shagreen grip, pierced foliate brass knuckle guard and brass pommel, steel scabbard, total length 102cm, 1860 Colt revolver with mahogany butt and working loading lever, serial number 89837, with holster, pouch, and lined cartridge pouch stamped A Sniffen, US Ord Dept, Sub Inspector', with 'R. Nece' below, rectangular officer's plate and keeper, not marked or numbered. Provenance: from the Militaria collection of Mr T Ross, specialist collector of American 19th century small arms, Civil War and patented pistols.
A Fenton Bros of Sheffield George V dress sword with pierced hilt, leather scabbard and shagreen and wire bound grip, blade etched with maker, George V Rex to one side and 'Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense' and United Kingdom Coat of arms shield below crown to the other, with double triangle and 'Proved', below, blade length 83cm, 102cm total length including scabbard.
A British Government issue P1899 Enfield sabre, with broad scoop guard and unusual thick crosshatched hilt, possibly made of resin, with depressed thumb rest, mark EFD and 34 beneath crown to blade, with original scabbard, whole length 111.5cm, blade 92cm, together with a pair of 20th century fencing foils, whole length 106.5cm, blade 88cm. (3)
A late 18th century cavalry sabre, circa 1796, with sawtooth ivory grip, brass knuckle guard, with leather scabbard and brass mounts, blade length 75cm, overall length including scabbard 88cm.Provenance: according to the family this sword was reputed to have been carried by Lt Richard Coles of the Eleventh Hussars during the Peninsular Wars and at Waterloo. This is from the Militaria collection of Mr T Ross, specialist collector of American 19th century small arms, Civil War and patented pistols.
A late 18th century officer's military sabre, circa 1796, typical of those used in the Peninsular Wars and at Waterloo, the blade etched and gilded with foliate design, with Gunby's Warrented maker's mark to one side, with wire and leather bound grip over wood, steel knuckle guard, scabbard and mounts, blade length 83cm, length overall including scabbard 100cm.Provenance: from the Militaria collection of Mr T Ross, specialist collector of American 19th century small arms, Civil War and patented pistols.
1920s Garda Síothchána uniform belt and truncheon with uniform scabbard. The buckle with the original spelling, 'Garda Síothchána'; together with a lignum vitae police truncheon with leather wrist strap, in black leather uniform scabbard. (2) Issued to Garda Frank Healy in 1927, thence by descent to the current owner.
Georgian Flank officer's sword. The curved, single-edged, non-fullered blade etched with martial trophies, royal cypher and 'Warrented', with remnants of gilding, the hilt with steel knucklebow, wire-bound, hide grip and oval langets, in metal scabbard. Also a Victorian officer's black leather and gold braid dress belt. Sword length 31.50in. (80cm)
Chinese Jian sword and Indian khanda sword. Chinese Jian sword, straight shallow diamond section blade mounted in 19th century fittings of the "fushou" type with bats and stylized longevity symbols, finely fluted hardwood grip, in wooden scabbard with brass mounts;.and an Indian 18th century khanda sword with European blade.
WW2 German parade bayonet and a parade dagger. German Army Parade Dress Bayonet, the single-edged blade with two-piece stag horn grips, plated fittings and black painted scabbard; together with a Wehrmacht parade dagger, the single-edged blade with plated "S" shape quillon and eagle head pommel, black composition chequered grips in its grey painted steel scabbard. Length of bayonet 14.75in. (37.5cm)
A good early 19th Century eastern sword (shamshir), apparently of European manufacture, curved blade 27.5 in., etched, blued and gilt decoration involving a series of crescents within a panel to a striped ground, and foliate sprays; copper-gilt hilt with bud-terminal langets, ball end quillons, star and crescent in white metal to the ecousson, scrolling knucklebow and faceted pistol grip, partial scabbard with gilt copper edges.
Four Indian swords (tulwar), each of characteristic form with curved blade and Indo-Muslim hilt: the first retaining silver koftgari decoration to the hilt, comparatively slender quillons, angled swell to the grip, large disk pommel, knucklebow terminating in a bestial head, leather covered scabbard; the next with blade double edged towards the point and with a laquered pattern of chevrons simulating pattern welding; the third with silver plated hilt and straight firangi type blade; the last with attenuated quillons and a leather covered scabbard. [4]
A Chinese double short sword (jian), the paired weapons with flat backs nesting together in a single scabbard, straight double-edged blades 9.5 in.; brass cross pieces with up-turned ends and embossed with masks of dragons or lions, relief decorated brass collar and pommels, reeded wooden grips; shagreen covered scabbard with brass mounts comprising pierced locket and chape, and two bands formed as stepped oval plaques.
An Indian dagger (katar), triangular blade 8 in. with swollen point and medial ridge, steel hilt with transverse grip; another Indian dagger, curved double edged blade 6.5 in., with depressed panels either side of a medial ridge and light engraved decoration, bone hilt with trifid terminal, fabric covered scabbard; and an all-steel jambiya, blade 5.5 in., oval-section waisted hilt, steel scabbard, silver koftgari decoration to each part. [3]
An Indonesian dagger (kris), flamboyant blade 13.5 in., carved wooden garuda type hilt, the wooden scabbard with a label: "This Dagger or Malayan Crese, was among the curiosities in the Armoury at Stowe House, and was purchased at the sale there in Augt. 1847 [sic]. Caution:- it is probably poisoned." The auction of objects from the collection at Stowe House actually took place over two months in 1848, and was conducted by Christie and Manson. The catalogue contains only one lot that might correspond with this kris: lot 264 on the 22nd day of the sale (the 13th September), which consisted of "A yataghan; two creses; a dagger; and an iron flute." The lot was bought for £4/4s. by Mr Harrison of Buckingham, who was apparently not deterred by the thought of poison.
Four Asian knives, Sumatra (tumbok lada, or sewar), slender forward curving blade 9.5 in., horn hilt, wooden scabbard with carved projection to the horn top; another, smaller, wooden hilt; Ceylon (piha-kaetta), blade 8 in., scrolling brass collar, carved horn grip scales; Malaya (kris), flamboyant blade 9 in., wooden garuda type hilt; the last three lacking scabbards. [4]
A small collection of African and Near Eastern knives and daggers, including a Moroccan jambiya, curved blade 10 in., hilt with fan shaped pommel, brass scabbard with incised decoration; a Sudanese arm dagger, with short triangular blade and waisted wooden hilt, hide scabbard with two arm loops (knife housed in later scabbard owing to shrinkage of original); another Sudanese knife with forward curving blade; a short double edged dagger with carved wood mountings; and three others. [7]
Two Khyber knives, the first with heavy 20 in. blade, steel hilt with wooden scales and brass frame, brass mounted leather covered wooden scabbard; the second similar with 19 in. blade; together with an Afghan dagger (choora), tapering T-section blade 9.75 in., steel and wood hilt with hooked terminal, hide covered scabbard. [3]
Five Middle Eastern daggers (jambiya), the first being a Marsh Arab example, double edged blade 9.5 in. with pronounced curve, horn hilt of oval cross-section, narrow grip interrupted by a carved band, fan shaped terminal, hide covered scabbard; the next Kurdish, blade 10.5 in. with pronounced medial ridge, oval-section horn hilt with narrow grip, riveted with four metal domes, leather covered scabbard; the third also Kurdish, smaller but of similar form, blade 7 in., embossed brass covered scabbard; the fourth Yemeni, large blade 19.5 in., incised collar, waisted horn hilt set with white metal bosses, leather covered scabbard with two round iron buckles; the last of typical Arab type with broad blade 8 in., waisted horn grip set with copies of Turkish coins, polychrome fabric banded scabbard and belt. [5]
A Chinese Kuomintang air force officer's dress dagger, double edged blade 9.5 in., cast brass hilt, eagle with outspread in relief to the cross piece, back strap and pommel formed as an eagle with red glass eyes, simulated ivory grip; brass mounted steel scabbard; together with a miniature Chinese sword (jian), straight double edged blade 7 in., brass hilt of characteristic form with bone grips, brass mounted wooden scabbard; both souvenirs acquired by the vendor's father, who served in the Burma theatre of WWII. [2]
Six Nepalese knives (kukri): a large example with 16.5 in. blade, studded horn hilt, brown leather scabbard with moulded decoration; three military type examples with brass mounted horn hilts and black leather covered scabbards, one bearing a brass plate engraved 'TIGER TOPS NEPAL'; and two further similar examples, with bone hilts; three (including the first) having by-knives. [6]
Five North African daggers: a koummya, curved blade 9 in., brass mounted hilt with fan-shaped pommel, brass scabbard with two large rings; two other similar weapons; a curved dagger mounted in the manner of a nimcha, the wooden hilt with large hooked square terminal inlaid with brass wire and red stones, wooden scabbard decorated en suite to the hilt; and a similar dagger, curved blade with Arabic inscription, hilt with horn mounts curving toward one another, bone grip, brass covered scabbard. [5]
A collection of Indian and Eastern weapons, comprising: a fighting axe (bulova), Chota Nagpur, broad blade forming a concave cutting edge, transverse ridge to the back of the socket, wooden haft 28 in.; a tulwar, curved blade 29 in., Indo-Muslim hilt with unusual bifurcated knucklebow; a Sri-Lankan sword (kastane), curved single edged blade 20 in., iron guard with two curved spurs framing the ricasso and a knucklebow tihe dragon terminal, horn hilt carved with bestial head terminal; and a Malaysian knife (golok), broad single edged blade 11 in., wooden hilt and scabbard with carved projections in the Sumatran manner, scabbard engraved 'ALOR GAJAH'. [4]
A good kukri, heavy blade 15 in., horn hilt with white metal collar, leather covered scabbard with modest stitched decoration; together with an Indian all steel axe, head with crescent shaped edge set to a block with spikes to the opposite face and top, slender haft 19 in.; and a Moroccan dagger (koummya), fan shaped pommel, scabbard decorated in light relief. [3]
Two Sudanese swords (kaskara), the first with double edged blade 34 in., three narrow fullers at the forte, punched with crescent moon devices, diamond-section iron cross piece with short langets, grip bound in vegetable fibre; the second with flat double edged blade 24 in., with etched decoration involving Arabic script in panels, brass guard, hide bound hilt and in a hide scabbard. [2]
A Sudanese sword (kaskara), broad double edged blade 3 in., narrow fullers and stamped with two crescent moons to each side, iron cross guard, crocodile hide covered grip; together with an Omani sword, blade 3 in., with rounded point and three narrow fullers, tapering guardless hilt, hilt and scabbard with embossed white metal mounts. [2]
Two Omani swords: one with blade of traditional spatulate form 31 in., the other having a single edged fullered blade 32.5 in., both with tapering guard-less hilts terminating in oblong iron pommels, each with an associated scabbard (ill fitting - possibly owing to shrinkage, possible non original); together with an African or Asian sword with slim curved blade 24 in., pierced rectangular guard with upturned edge, wooden grip and pommel. [3]
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