Sword and scabbard
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal
Measurements
125 mm (Width); 990 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532370
Summary
Sword and leather scabbard, with a gilt boat-shell type hilt featuring a silver twisted wire handle with a rounded pommel with a finial. Part of a collection of twelve swords and scabbards.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.