J B Military Antiques
Lot 49
Plated nickel, full basket hilt, with screw in gilt-washed brass crown & cypher, with slightly worn-plated plain backstrap, with hatched dome pommel. Fish skin & full wire wrap, with buff leather knot. 96 cm long steel blade, showing polished etchings to both sides of blade, running half length, showing RHG cypher & crown, family crest & crown, unit battle honours, including Dettingen, Waterloo & Egypt 1882, spine stamped 37833 with Wilkinson Sword maker, mark just visible. Plated nickel & brass scabbard in excellent condition. Overall length: 115 cm. Comes with copied colour portrait of Viscount Ingestre & full research file, including Wilkinson Sword archive connecting the registered sword number to Viscount Ingestre. A rare sword.Viscount Ingestre, Charles Alton Chetwynd-Talbot R.V.O. was born on 8/9/1882. His father, Charles Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, the founder of the Talbot Motor Company, bestowed the subsidiary title of Viscount Ingestre on his son. Following his commission into the British Army, Charles Jnr served with the Sussex regiment, before joining the Royal Horse Guards, where he attained the rank of Captain. In 1907 he was awarded the Royal Victorian Order (R.V.O.) by King Edward VII, following a royal visit to the family home of Alton Towers during that year - (Alton Towers is now the location of the popular British theme park of the same name). In December 1914, Viscount Ingestre contracted influenza which caused his death, at his London home, on 8/1/1915 at the age of 32. He was accorded a military funeral, which was attended by many members of the British aristocracy, before being laid to rest at the family church at Ingestre, Staffordshire.
