A Rare Grenadiers Hanger

A Rare Grenadiers Hanger of the Royal Regiment of Foot, Circa 1740.
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ID: 1898

With slightly curved single edge blade becoming double edged towards the point cut with a long slender fuller running along the back edge of the blade for most of its length and stamped either side, S.HARVEY steel three-quarter basket hilt with wooden grip and bun shaped pommel. A rare sword in outstanding condition. 


A similar example housed in the Royal Armouries (Ref:IX.2138) is illustrated in Cyril Mazansky (2005) British Basket-Hilted Swords A Typology of Basket-Tyoe Sword Hilts, Boydell Press, Suffolk, UK. (page 230). 

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