POST MEDIEVAL BRITISH 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY OFFICER'S SWORD 18th century AD A 1796 pattern Light Cavalry officer's sword with curved ground blade with script to the spine 'J.J. Runkel Solingen'; gilt bronze hilt with carved bone or ivory grip, to one face of the blade the royal arms with sprays of foliage, to the other initials 'GR' with crown and stamped crescent, sprays of foliage and a cannon. 755 grams, 93cm (36 1/2"). Good condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Property of an Essex Church Charity, UK; acquired by donation from a parishioner, 2016. Literature See Withers, Harvey J. S., Swords and Sabres, Leicestershire, 2011, p.192. Footnotes The officer's version of the 1796 pattern sabre was lighter than that for other ranks; such weapons would have been used by light cavalry troops during the Peninsula War campaigns and at Waterloo.
POST MEDIEVAL BRITISH 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY OFFICER'S SWORD 18th century AD A 1796 pattern Light Cavalry officer's sword with curved ground blade with script to the spine 'J.J. Runkel Solingen'; gilt bronze hilt with carved bone or ivory grip, to one face of the blade the royal arms with sprays of foliage, to the other initials 'GR' with crown and stamped crescent, sprays of foliage and a cannon. 755 grams, 93cm (36 1/2"). Good condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Property of an Essex Church Charity, UK; acquired by donation from a parishioner, 2016. Literature See Withers, Harvey J. S., Swords and Sabres, Leicestershire, 2011, p.192. Footnotes The officer's version of the 1796 pattern sabre was lighter than that for other ranks; such weapons would have been used by light cavalry troops during the Peninsula War campaigns and at Waterloo.
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