Miniature toy sword; in form of a British or Indian Army officer’s sword of ‘gothic’ hilt; blade is slightly curved with broad shallow fullers and rounded point; copper or brass guard with a chequered backpiece and pommel, with a small tang button and the remains of a red velvet lining, most of the guard has broken away; ribbed wooden grip covered with fabric and bound with twisted and plain wire; thought to have belonged to the son of Sher Ali Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, and have been bought back to Britain by Maj Gen Boyce Albert Combe CB, 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars during the Second Afghan War.