NAM.1960-08-49-1

Pattern 1834, 1st Life Guards Officer’s sword, 1840 (c). Blade has a wide shallow fuller, and is spear pointed, and engraved with the make’s name, W Moore, late Bicknells Moore. Steel hilt with brass rivets around the edge, with brass crown and regimental monogram, ‘L.G.I.’. Grip covered in grey fish skin. Associated with James Mc N Hogg. Accession Register states that the sword was in a gilt, glazed box inscribed, ‘Major General Sir John Nicholson K.C.B. who fell leading the assault on Delhi, Sept 1857’, however, Nicholson was not of the 1st Life Guards, nor was he a K.C.B.