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1 of 253523 objects
Great Britain
Dress sword c.1775-85
Steel, wood, gold, silver | 81.0 cm (blade length) | RCIN 67082
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Light dress sword with moving guard, bright British steel hilt with a wooden grip carved spirally with ridges and flutes with silver-gilt foil and wire surmounted by an oval pommel of quadrilobate section encrusted like the guards with gold of four colours in the neoclassical style. The straight two-edged German blade of flattened lenticular section.
Provenance
Presented to George IV by Lord Southampton and displayed in the Armoury at Carlton House (CH AA 364), where it was recorded as 'French'.
Sent to Windsor Castle on 8 August 1842 and subsequently displayed in the North Corridor there (no. 1184).
Lord Southampton was George Ferdinand Fitzroy, the 2nd Baron (1761-1810), who became Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince in 1783. -
Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Steel, wood, gold, silver
Measurements
81.0 cm (blade length)
99.0 cm (length)
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