26th Mar, 2024 10:00

SPRING VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION

 
Lot 130
 

130

A RARE 1796 PATTERN ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICER'S FIGHTING SABRE OF WATERLOO INTEREST

76cm sharply curved blade, regulation steel stirrup hilt, wire bound leather covered wooden grip, contained in its steel scabbard, dent, complete with rare buff leather hangers and worn bullion knot. Partial old label accompanying this lot references Thomas Scott, who served as a First Lieutenant in Major Rogers' Brigade at Waterloo. The Waterloo Roll Call details that Scott had a horse killed under him at Quatre Bras and this is possibly when the grapeshot? dent occurred to the scabbard. Scott died as a Brevet Major at Fordingbridge near Canterbury on the 28th of December 1834.

Sold for £1,600


 

76cm sharply curved blade, regulation steel stirrup hilt, wire bound leather covered wooden grip, contained in its steel scabbard, dent, complete with rare buff leather hangers and worn bullion knot. Partial old label accompanying this lot references Thomas Scott, who served as a First Lieutenant in Major Rogers' Brigade at Waterloo. The Waterloo Roll Call details that Scott had a horse killed under him at Quatre Bras and this is possibly when the grapeshot? dent occurred to the scabbard. Scott died as a Brevet Major at Fordingbridge near Canterbury on the 28th of December 1834.

Auction: SPRING VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION, 26th Mar, 2024

Virtual Fine Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria auction. No bidding in person.

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