John Hart

Nice sword, Mervyn. Considering how many of these swords are still around, I'm always surprised at how few seem to carry owner's etchings or family crests. In my experience far more of their more mundane counterparts (P1845s, 1897s etc) have such "personalisation". I wonder if this is a case of older, wiser heads foregoing the extra expense of such fripperies, or simply that General Officers would never be leaving their swords in a pile at camp time, so did not run the risk of losing their weapon amongst a crowd of similar ones? John

Hi Mervyn, I don't recognise the pattern, but the profiled grip, cut-out indentation in the guard for the tumb-tip and the sword knot are all very Italian features! John