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**RARE**WW1 Era Eickhorn Solingen, Imperial German Artillery Train Battery Officer’s Etched Blade Dress Sword To ‘Wurtt Train Bat No.13’ (Imperial German State Of Wurttemberg Train Battery Or Battalion Number 13) & Scabbard. Sn 18158 - 18158 This is an excellent, original Eickhorn, Solingen, Imperial German Artillery Train Battery Officer's dress sword. The sword has nickel plated knuckle bow with pierced bowl guard. It has an undamaged wire bound polished horn grip. The inside of the guard has remnants of an original leather hanger loop attached. The sword measures 36 ¾” overall and the ricasso of its 31” single edged, curved blade with fullers is stamped with Eickhorn back to back squirrelsabove O.E. (Original Eickhorn) trademark. The polished blade has its original leather hilt washer & has deeply engraved panels on both sides and the spine featuring Imperial Eagles, Martial banners and arms including Cannon all amongst foliate decoration. One panel features an artillery baggage / ammunition carriage pulled by a train of horses with mounted soldiers. Another panel is marked to ‘Wurtt Train Bat No.13’ (Wurttemberg Train Battery or Battalion Number 13). The sword is complete with its original black painted steel scabbard with hanging ring. The price for this rare sword in excellent condition includes UK delivery. Sn 18158 £895.00 |
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WW1 1916 British WD ‘SB&N Ld’ (Sanderson Bros & Newbold Limited) 1908 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Troopers Sword & 1915 Dated Scabbard. Sn 13642 - 13642 This is an original British 1908 Pattern Heavy Cavalry Troopers sword & scabbard. It has an undamaged 35" single edged blade with fuller (43" overall). The ricasso is date marked ’4/16’ (April 1916) and fitted with leather hilt washer. It also has WD arrow & SB&N manufacturer mark which is "Sanderson Bros & Newbold". The spine has ‘08’ (pattern). The bowl guard has no visible Regiment or date marks. It has a clean undamaged chequered grip with correct thumb recess. It is complete with its original steel scabbard with fixed hanging rings. The scabbard has ’15 (1915) date. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 13642 £695.00 |
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Pre WW2 U.S. Army Model 1902 Infantry Officer’s Sword By Allen & Co New York With Etched Blade To U.S Artillery Officer Captain L.C. Baldwin Captured By The Japanese 1942 Died 1945 Island Of Honshu Japan, Scabbard, Leather Transit Cover & Provenance. - 19783 Captain Lawrence Chandler Baldwin was the son of a career US Army officer. Born in Tokyo during the Great War, it makes the way in which he died even more tragic. As a boy he met a president. He attended West Point and was commissioned into the Field Artillery and then served under Douglas MacArthur. He graduated West Point 1938, served with the coastal artillery in Corregidor Philippines. Captured may 1942, held at POW camp No.1 on Mindanao. He died march 4th 1945 on the island of Honshu japan. A full history of his captivity and a printed Eulogy given by his father after the Officer’s death and copy images of the Officer in uniform accompany the sword. This eulogy is written by his father, Colonel Karl F Baldwin. The elder Baldwin served as a liaison officer with the Japanese in Tokyo during the First World War (when Japan was allied with us) and was a recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal for that service (at the time the highest award for non-combat service). Colonel Baldwin’s eulogy of his son isn’t a short read, but it is powerful. The Euloguy and other information regarding Capt Baldwin can be seen online at https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=125159. This is Captain Baldwin’s Model 1902 sword (see page 213 & 214 of World Swords By Withers where U.S. Model 1902 swords are described & illustrated). Its curved 32” fullered steel blade is undamaged. Both sides of the blade have etched foliate decoration incorporating U.S. (Army), American Eagle and the Owner’s name ‘Lawrence C Baldwin’. The ricasso has the maker mark ‘Henry V Allen & Co New York’ and army acceptance proof star. It has the correct undamaged Polished horn or Bakelite grip with finger grooves. It has a plated 3 bar guard with down swept quillon. The hilt is fitted with original officer’s brown leather cord and barrel knot. The sword is complete with original plated steel scabbard with 2 hanging rings. The scabbard has a few minor dents. The sword comes with its leather transit cover with press stud fastener. The surface of the leather has some scuffing consistent with age and use. The price for this attributed sword with provenance includes UK delivery. Sn 19783 £895.00 |
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British Yeomanry 1796 Pattern Light Cavalry & Flank Infantry Sabre & Scabbard. ED 278 - ED 278 The Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre was used primarily by British Light Dragoons and Hussars during the Napoleonic Wars. The blade is remembered today as one of the best of its time and has been described as the finest cutting sword ever manufactured in quantity. Officers of the famous 95th Rifles, Light Infantry Regiments and the "flank" Companies of Line Regiments adopted these Swords (The Hit Napoleonic War, Book & TV series Sharpe's Rifles featured this pattern of Sword). Pattern 1796 Sabres were used at The Battle of Waterloo 1815. This original 1796 Sabre has no War Dept marks and was most likely carried by Yeomanry Cavalry. It has a single edged, fullered 32 ½” Sabre blade (37 ¼” overall). The blade has light staining consistent with age but no rust. There are no visible manufacturer marks on this sword. Its cross guard, knuckle guard, pommel and grooved wood ribbed grip are in good condition with just the service wear to be expected. The Sabre is complete with its original steel scabbard with 2 hanging rings. The scabbard has several dents and just the staining which is to be expected of a Sabre scabbard of this age. The price includes UK delivery. ED 278 £695.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (08/10) British Made WWII Era Ralph Martindale ‘Crocodile’ Blade Machete with Polished Bone Grips. ED 2344. - ED 2344 The firm Ralf Martindale & Co. Ltd with a long history, founded around the 1860's produced these bush machetes in their Crocodile Works in Birmingham, England until the end of the 1960's. The area was then redeveloped, the factory pulled down. The firm Ralf Martindale & Co. Ltd still continues to this day, based still in the West Midlands at Willenhall. The famous Martindale “Crocodile” blade is made from hot rolled high quality British Steel, produced in the Martindale’s own mill. The Crocodile blade is distinguished by its tapered strip section. An original WWII era machete by Ralph Martindale who made these machetes for the British War Department (see page 108 of 'British and Commonwealth Military Knives' book by Flook). The machete has a heavy steel blade which is 52 ½ cm long and 3 cm broad at its widest point and is marked ‘RALPH MARTINDALE BEST CAST STEEL BIRMINGHAM’. The grips are fully intact polished bone *minor damage-see images* with a stylised Birds head pommel which are retained with four brass studs. The blade has staining consistent with age and service use. This example is complete with a heavy-duty leather scabbard in excellent condition. The leather stitching *loose in parts* and metalwork are clean and intact. The price includes UK delivery. ED 2344. (Bucket) £0.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (08/10) WWII Dutch Klewang M1898 Naval Cutlass and Leather Scabbard. ED 2434. - ED 2434 The German company Solingen first manufactured the M1898 Klewang for the Dutch in its earliest development. The European models used a wooden grip while the U.S.-made Milsco used a black plastic-like bakelite grip. After the Netherlands couldn't fullfill its contract to Milsco in 1941, having been overrun by the Germans, the U.S. Navy purchased the excess inventory of cutlasses and then sold them after the war as Navy surplus. The un-marked fullered blade length is 44 ¾ cm – 57 cm overall. The hardwood hilt is secured above the crossguard with three brass screws. The leather and brass hilt is in good overall condition, with frog and belt hanger intact and marked ‘CW N 10’39 (Oct 1939) with a plate inscribed ‘GB 59’ to the rear. A naval mans name is inscribed to the leather at the rear *see images*. The price includes UK delivery. ED 2434. £0.00 |
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Turkish N.C.O. Gallipoli Campaign Sword and Scabbard by Manufacturer E&F Horster Solingen. ED 2342. - ED 2342 The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Entente powers, Britain, France and the Russian Empire, sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire, one of the Central Powers, by taking control of the Ottoman straits. This would expose the Ottoman capital at Constantinople to bombardment by Entente battleships and cut it off from the Asian part of the empire. With the Ottoman Empire defeated, the Suez Canal would be safe and the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits would be open to Entente supplies to the Black Sea and warm-water ports in Russia. This example has the E&F Horster Solingen mark to one side and Turkish calligraphy *feint* inscribed to both sides, with a black painted D guard and ribbed ebony grips bound with woven steel wire. Complete with its original steel scabbard which retains much of its paint and frog stud. Blade measuring; 25 ½ “- 30 ½ “overall. The price includes UK delivery. ED 2342. (Bucket) £275.00 |
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Early 19th Century French Brass Handled Infantry Briquet Short Sword Sidearm Hanger & Scabbard. Sn 20744. - 20744 This is an excellent, original, French Infantry Briquet Short Sword Sidearm & Scabbard. It has 23 ¼” heavy single edged blade and measures 29” overall. It has a rugged brass handle deeply grooved for grip with full knuckle bar, curved ball end quillon cross guard and rounded pommel. The quillon is stamped ‘V37’ and the knuckle guard has an inspection mark. The blade has an indistinct manufacturer’s signature or Regiment mark and other inspection marks (all illustrated). The Sword is complete with original Leather Scabbard with brass throat mount and chape with ball end. The throat mount has a fixed frog bar. All leather and stitching are intact. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 20744 (bucket) £395.00 |
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Inter War 1932 British Gentleman’s Mallaca Sword Stick With Sterling Silver Hall Marked Mounts Presented To D. Aspinall 12th May 1932 By His Fellow Workers With Blued & Etched Panels Blade. Sn 14448 - 14448 This is an attractive inter war sword stick. The sword stick has rubbed sterling silver hallmarks, the word ‘Kendall’ and number ‘2’ within roundel on the silver collar of its curved handle (illustrated) . The collar is engraved ‘Presented To D. Aspinall By His Fellow Workers As A Token Of Respect’ together with date ’12.5.32’. The curved handle has a silver pommel cap. It has a 25 ¼” diamond section blade and measures 32 ¼” overall length. The blade has blued and etched panels featuring a cross on plinth and foliate designs. The blade is tapers to a pin sharp point. The sword stick measures 33 ¾” overall in its scabbard. The Mallaca scabbard is undamaged. The throat has a polished horn insert. The scabbard has a blackened conical brass end cap. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 14448 £495.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (14/10) ARTISAN SMITH**WW2 1944 Dated Japanese Officer's Type 98 Shin Gunto Pattern Katana Sword With Smith Signed Tang ‘NOBU MITSU’, Period Owner’s Name Written In Japanese On The Hilt, Rank Tassel, Scabbard & Expert Assessment. Sn 21767 - 21767 An original WW2 dated Japanese Officer's Sword with signed tang. The sword has been assessed by UK Japanese sword expert Bill Tagg. A copy of his hand written notes and illustrations accompany the sword. In extracts from his notes he states “A Type 98 Shin Gunto Officer’s sword katana. The blade is a low to medium grade Showa-To oil quenched tempering made from bar stock or scrap steel. Made late war January 1944 by Nobu Mitsu real name Sake Shin Ichi student of Kojima Katsu Masa worked as a gunto smith rated skilled artisan see Markus Sesko book page 307 & John Slough book on sword smiths page 135. In bright old faded polish with very faint nioi edged suguha straight hamon. Saya metal parade with some gilt finish left on mounts with olive green paint in reasonable condition, some wear and bumps in steel. Tsuba standard gunto pattern with several seppa, dirty with some original gilt. Tsuka good quality & condition with working locking catch & saute knot loop which has a Lieutenant to captain rank tassel blue and brown colour. What appears to be original Japanese owner’s name written in inkon the fish skin inside top mount, not translated needs research”. In his illustrations Bill translates the tang signature, identifies arsenal inspection marks and January 1944 date. He describes the cutting edge as 66 cms length and total length 89 cms”. He also describes and illustrates other blade measurements and characteristics (illustrated in image 2). The price includes UK delivery. Sn 21767 £0.00 |
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