NAM.1984-04-129-1

Band sword, 21st Regiment (Royal North British Fusiliers), pre-1856; curved blade, engraved with the maker’s name, Hamburger, Rogers and Co; mameluke style hilt in polished brass with a lion’s head pommel; the length of the blade is more akin to Cavalry band swords, ten those of the Infantry; bandsmen of lowland regiments carried swords of regimental pattern, such as this, until 1856.