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A VICTORIAN OFFICER'S MAMELUKE SWORD
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A VICTORIAN OFFICER'S MAMELUKE SWORD

BY H. POOLE & CO, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A VICTORIAN OFFICER'S MAMELUKE SWORD
By H. Poole & Co, late 19th Century
With good slightly curved flat-sided blade, etched with maker's details, foliate decoration, 'VR' cypher and rose, gilt metal crosspiece with cast decoration and écussons mounted with a white-metal rose (possibly replacing an earlier ornament), and ivory grips, in a fine plated scabbard mounted with ornate cast gilt mounts of distinctive 11th Hussar pattern
31¾in. (80.6cm.) blade
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The unmistakeable 11th Hussar pattern scabbard suggests that this weapon may have been made for wear in Levée Dress by a former officer of the regiment who transferred to one of the Yeomanry regiments who used the rose device. A manuscript label states that it belonged to the North Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry. However the Yorkshire Hussars and Lancashire Hussars are also possibilities