Saturday 26th April Luxury Items & Nostalgia
GEORGE VI, 1827 PATTERN NAVAL OFFICERS SWORD, BY GIEVES,
Estimate: £250 - £300
with a 31 ¼" single edge and fullered blade by “Gieves”, with “Proved S” button, etched with crowned fouled anchor, and verso with GR VI cypher, all in roped and foliate panels, regulation solid half basket guard, cast with crowned fouled anchor and hinged inner portion locking to scabbard throat and engraved “JW Walker”, lion’s head pommel and backstrap, wire bound ray skin grip, in an engraved gilt brass mounted black leather scabbard with 2 rings.
Overall length in scabbard, 94.5cm
(Surface wear to gilt mounts, rust patches to blade, wear to wire bullion on toggle)
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