NAM.1957-02-55-1

Pattern 1874, State Sword, 2nd Life Guards; blade is straight, flat backed with a spear point and fullered, etched with a Victorian cypher, Royal Coat of Arms, regimental badge and motto, battle honours, the retailers name and owners initials; three-quarter basket, ‘ladder’ guard with regimental cypher beneath crown; steel, chequered hemisphere pommel; standardisation of Household Cavalry patterns, except those for active service, occurred during the 1860s, the first changes this caused can be seen in the 1872 Dress Regulations; the swords became known as State sword, of which this is an example; sword belonged to Osbert Cecil Molyneaux, 6th Earl of Sefton, who joined the regiment in 1895.