NAM.1966-02-24-1

Dress sword, Royal Horse Guards, 1832 (c); blade is straight, flat backed with single fuller and hatchet point, with engraved decoration, including the maker’s name, Hamburger, Rogers and Co; four-bar guard in gilt brass, with a Tudor crown decoration on the stool and a Tudor Rose on the pommel; wooden grip covered in fish skin and bound with brass wire, the top part of which bends forward, influenced by Continental design; associated with Capt J W Billington, RHG, 1848-59.