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    For Identification ?


    Mervyn Mitton

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    I have another sword I had intended to post today - however, a customer has just emailed me pictures of this sword and is asking for identification .

    I have not yet checked any books - so, I will tell you what I think and perhaps we can work out it's history ?

    Firstly, I think it may be a Naval sword - the hilt has the usual lion's head - the blade has a curve - and there appears

    to be a fouled anchor etched on the blade.

    The lion's head has been quite roughly worked and the engraving is not good. I am wondering if it is of Indian workmanship and perhaps for the Honourable East India Company - who ruled British India until the 1850's - and had their own navy. I

    would think from it's appearance that it would date to the early part of the 19th. Century.=

    These are. just my thoughts - hopefully someone will be able to make a better call ?

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    The "Fouled Anchor" looks more like a flag with what looks like a quiver of arrows crossing it to me. Maybe the design on the flag could give a clue to the maker or owner!! (If it's clear enough)

    Edited by Rayjin
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    The brass work on the hilt, especially with the very visible tang end, certainly looks like Indian standard workmanship but I also agree that the device is a colour crossed with something else. The work looks Indian too - a copy of something perhaps only partly undertood by the craftsman.

    I know that John Company had a navy - the Honourable East India Company's Marine, later His Majesty's Indian Navy, so it would make sense that they would have naval swords and it was in existance for 200+ years, so your theory makes a lot of sense! Perhaps some one of our esteemed members can make an authoritative pronouncement on the subject.

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