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. A Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Presentation Sword. It was owned by Vice-Admiral Thomas Dundas (d.1841). The hilt consists of a diamond-knurled ivory grip, with the gilt-metal pommel and back-piece in the form of a lion's skin. The quillon is in
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. Dirk scabbard.
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. Dirk, thought to have belonged to a French Naval Officer. The hilt of the dirk consists of inversed brass quillons with an additional bar on the obverse side with three small balls at its centre. The small brass pommel is horizontally grooved. The dirk
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. Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 presentation sword, which belonged to Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood (1770-1832). The hilt of the sword consists of a gilt quillon, which is shaped like a Roman fascis, the guard meeting this at right angles and made i
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. Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Trafalgar pattern presentation sword, which belonged to Vice-Admiral Sir Richard King (1774-1834). The hilt of the sword consists of a gilt guard. The sword has a lion's head pommel and back-piece, the mane extendin
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. Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Trafalgar pattern presentation sword. Presented to Captain J.M. Mansfield (died 1813). The hilt consists of an ivory grip, diamond-knurled and a gilt lion's-skin back-piece. The quillon is in the shape of a Roman fa
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. Presentation sword. The hilt consists of a gilt stirrup guard, a lion's-head pommel and back-piece, the mane extending the length of the back-piece and a white polished ivory grip bound with three gilt wires. The langets have broken off. The straig
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. Scabbard for Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Trafalgar pattern presentation sword.
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. Scabbard for stirrup-hilted sword. The scabbard is black leather with one locket fitted with a ring and brass chape.
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. Scabbard on a support. The black leather scabbard has a gilt top and mid-locket, with suspension rings and a chape. The top locket on the scabbard is inscribed with '?D (or O ) BLACHFORD/ 12 Leadenhall Street/ LONDON'.
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. Scabbard.
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. Stirrup hilted sword, which belonged to Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin (1764-1847). The hilt of the sword consists of a gilt stirrup guard. The langets are engraved with a foul anchor motif. The sword has a lion's-head pommel and back-piece
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. Stirrup-hilted sword. The hilt consists of a gilt stirrup guard with lion's-head pommel, the mane extending two-thirds of the way down the gilt back-piece. The polished ivory grip is bound with three wires. There is a short straight quillon ending
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. Stirrup-hilted sword. The stirrup-hilt has an ivory grip bound with gilt wire, incorporates langets which bear an engraved foul anchor and has a lion's-mask pommel made in one with a smooth back-piece and a small plain ferrule. The blade is straigh
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. Straight stirrup hilted sword, said to have belonged to Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood (1762-1814), although this thought to be dubious as Vice-Admiral Hood died in 1814 and this pattern sword was not introduced until 1825. The hilt consists of a straight
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. Straight-bladed dirk, which originally belonged to Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) and later to Fleet-Surgeon H.L. Norris (died 1916). The hilt of the dirk consists of a straight crosspiece with inversed quillons, all heavily engraved and ornament
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. The box belonging to the Lloyds Patriotic Fund £50 presentation sword, which belonged to Captain Samuel Mallock (died 1845).
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Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Trafalgar pattern presentation sword that belonged to Captain J.R. Lapenotiere (1770-1834). Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Trafalgar pattern presentation sword, the sword belonged to Captain J.R. Lapenotiere (1770-1834)
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Lloyds Patriotic Fund £50 presentation sword. Lloyds Patriotic Fund £50 presentation sword, which belonged to Captain Samuel Mallock (died 1845). The hilt of the sword consists of a gilt quillon, which is shaped like a Roman fascis, the guard
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Scabbard from Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Trafalgar pattern presentation sword that belonged to Captain J.R. Lapenotiere (1770-1834). Scabbard from the Lloyds Patriotic Fund £100 Trafalgar pattern presentation sword, which belonged to Captain
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