11.25" blade, 15.25" overall length. Carved wood handle with ca 50% of pommel severed from the grip. Additionally ca 50% of wood is broken at the top of the grips. Metal scabbard is numbered 42 and has three heavily patinated brass fittings with floral motifs. Lot includes a copy of a photograph of Hougomont and a medal with George P. Regent and a bust of King George on one side. Opposite side marked Waterloo and Wellington June 18, 1815. Cased in a shadow box case with cutout figure of a soldier with a note that reads, Waterloo Dirk. Bandsman's dirk of the 42d Regiment, the Black Watch, found at Hougomont, a farmhouse complex, scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815. The tin sheath, once leather covered, is marked with St. Andrew and 42. The middle band rear engraved, BAND, 42d Regt. No. 9" Note attached states Col. H. Petrie found the dirk "in the wall of Hougomont." On 16 June 1815 the Black Watch lost 49% of the officers and men at Quatre Bras, (45 KIA; 243 WIA). The survivor fought at Waterloo two days later in the 5th British Infantry Division which sustained 43% casualties. The 42d lost 5 KIA; 42 WIA. Presumably, this dirk belonged to one of these men? The Black Watch was one of four regiments cited individually for bravery by the Duke of Wellington. Condition: Blade is heavily pitted and grips with fragments of wood missing as noted. Knife and scabbard are secured by wire to the background - so other side of the dirk has not been thoroughly examined. Scabbard has a significant dent in the metal. Scabbard is in near-relic condition.
11.25" blade, 15.25" overall length. Carved wood handle with ca 50% of pommel severed from the grip. Additionally ca 50% of wood is broken at the top of the grips. Metal scabbard is numbered 42 and has three heavily patinated brass fittings with floral motifs. Lot includes a copy of a photograph of Hougomont and a medal with George P. Regent and a bust of King George on one side. Opposite side marked Waterloo and Wellington June 18, 1815. Cased in a shadow box case with cutout figure of a soldier with a note that reads, Waterloo Dirk. Bandsman's dirk of the 42d Regiment, the Black Watch, found at Hougomont, a farmhouse complex, scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815. The tin sheath, once leather covered, is marked with St. Andrew and 42. The middle band rear engraved, BAND, 42d Regt. No. 9" Note attached states Col. H. Petrie found the dirk "in the wall of Hougomont." On 16 June 1815 the Black Watch lost 49% of the officers and men at Quatre Bras, (45 KIA; 243 WIA). The survivor fought at Waterloo two days later in the 5th British Infantry Division which sustained 43% casualties. The 42d lost 5 KIA; 42 WIA. Presumably, this dirk belonged to one of these men? The Black Watch was one of four regiments cited individually for bravery by the Duke of Wellington. Condition: Blade is heavily pitted and grips with fragments of wood missing as noted. Knife and scabbard are secured by wire to the background - so other side of the dirk has not been thoroughly examined. Scabbard has a significant dent in the metal. Scabbard is in near-relic condition.
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