A SWORD OF BRITISH PATTERN 1831 GENERAL OFFICER TYPE
CIRCA 1856-62, THE BLADE PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY
With earlier curved watered steel blade from a shamshir with a gold-damascened baduh and a lobed medallion with Persian inscription in Arabic script, gilt-brass hilt cast and chased on each side with scrollwork, a laurel wreath, and a crossed sword and baton, ivory grips-scales (loose, both chipped at base), and bullion-thread sword-knot, in original red-velvet-covered scabbard with gilt-brass mounts engraved with flowering foliage, and with regulation-type brass field scabbard
29in. (73.7cm.) blade
A SWORD OF BRITISH PATTERN 1831 GENERAL OFFICER TYPE
CIRCA 1856-62, THE BLADE PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY
With earlier curved watered steel blade from a shamshir with a gold-damascened baduh and a lobed medallion with Persian inscription in Arabic script, gilt-brass hilt cast and chased on each side with scrollwork, a laurel wreath, and a crossed sword and baton, ivory grips-scales (loose, both chipped at base), and bullion-thread sword-knot, in original red-velvet-covered scabbard with gilt-brass mounts engraved with flowering foliage, and with regulation-type brass field scabbard
29in. (73.7cm.) blade
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