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A silver-hilted small-sword,retailed by Hewet, Temple Barr [sic], mid-18th Century
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Description
mid-18th Century
with hollow-triangular blade with a large brass-lined mark at the forte, silver-gilt hilt cast and chased in low relief, including double shell-guard decorated with strapwork scrolls and foliage involving figures from antiquity on a finely punched fish-roe ground, the quillon block, knuckle-guard and pommel each decorated en suite, and original grip of twisted silver wire, in its original leather-covered wooden scabbard with silver belt hook and locket, the latter inscribed by the retailer (scabbard incomplete and extensively damaged); and a Victorian 1821 pattern Light Cavalry Officer’s sword by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, no.27745 for 1886, with etched blade incorporating the owner’s monogrammed initials, in its scabbard and complete with its chamois cover
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