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BY OSBORN AND GUNBY, SWORD CUTLERS TO HIS MAJESTY & HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, BIRMINGHAM & PALL MALL, LONDON, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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AN ENGLISH PRESENTATION SABRE
By Osborn and Gunby, Sword Cutlers to His Majesty & His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Birmingham & Pall Mall, London, early 19th Century
With slightly curved single-edged blade double-edged at the point and with two broad fullers running almost the entire length, etched, blued and gilt with the maker's signature, the Royal Arms, Neptune, Fame, Britannia, trophies of arms, roses and thistles (for England and Scotland), and allegorical figures, and cut-steel stirrup hilt (knuckle-guard replaced) partly etched and gilt, with gilt beads on the langets and two imitation rubies on the forward quillon tip, in its original etched and gilt steel scabbard with engraved, cast and chased gilt-bronze mounts decorated in high relief, and with two roped loose-rings, the central mount set with a blue enamel plaque bearing the crest and motto of the Prince of Wales (later the Prince Regent, and then King George IV) below the motto 'Decori Deus Addit Avito', the sword and scabbard retaining much of their original finish
32½in. blade
By Osborn and Gunby, Sword Cutlers to His Majesty & His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Birmingham & Pall Mall, London, early 19th Century
With slightly curved single-edged blade double-edged at the point and with two broad fullers running almost the entire length, etched, blued and gilt with the maker's signature, the Royal Arms, Neptune, Fame, Britannia, trophies of arms, roses and thistles (for England and Scotland), and allegorical figures, and cut-steel stirrup hilt (knuckle-guard replaced) partly etched and gilt, with gilt beads on the langets and two imitation rubies on the forward quillon tip, in its original etched and gilt steel scabbard with engraved, cast and chased gilt-bronze mounts decorated in high relief, and with two roped loose-rings, the central mount set with a blue enamel plaque bearing the crest and motto of the Prince of Wales (later the Prince Regent, and then King George IV) below the motto 'Decori Deus Addit Avito', the sword and scabbard retaining much of their original finish
32½in. blade
Provenance
William Randolph Hearst, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 December 1952, lot 94 (illustrated)
By tradition presented to the Duke of Wellington by the Prince Regent
By tradition presented to the Duke of Wellington by the Prince Regent