Hammer

£860

11th Hussars Trooper’s Victorian 1853 pattern sword.

A rare example, plain slightly curved blade with wide fuller. Maker’s stamp of BM, within a Bw and Arrow and to the back of the blade a WD arrow and I. Three bar open guard with two piece leather grip with five rivets. Housed in original polished steel scabbard, fitted with two loose rings. The scabbard is with faint issue stamps of XI H 199. Complete with period white buff leather sword knot. Minor surface pitting to the hilt and scabbard, otherwise GC.

In 1854 at the outbreak of the Crimea War the regiment was sent from Turkey to Russia. It was one of the five regiments that participated in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. It later served in India until 1878. The Indian issue stamp to the blade may be explained by the regiment exchanging this pattern of sword during their service there