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Lot 11Ф,Y

A George V Lord Lieutenant's Mameluke-Hilted Sabre
By Meyer & Mortimer Conduit St., London, No. 10003, Circa 1910

29 March 2017, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £312.50 inc. premium

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A George V Lord Lieutenant's Mameluke-Hilted Sabre
By Meyer & Mortimer Conduit St., London, No. 10003, Circa 1910

With slightly curved blade (some rust patination) double-edged towards the point, etched along both sides for most of its length with scrolling foliage either side of a crowned 'GVR' cypher above an Irish harp, shamrocks and a crossed palm and laurel, the forte on one side with the maker's details, gilt regulation hilt comprising cross-guard cast and chased on both sides with foliage centred on a silver shamrock within a wreath of oak, gilt grip-strap, ivory grips secured by gilt-headed rosettes, and pommel pierced for a sword-knot, in its silvered scabbard (rust damaged, silvering lifting and incomplete) with two rings for suspension, together with its brown leather travelling cover, an old label attached printed 'Lord Harlech' (2)
80 cm. blade

Footnotes

Probably carried by George Ormsby Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech (1855-1938), Lord Lieutenant of Leitrim between 1904 and 1922.

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