NAM.1960-02-8-1

Pattern 1821, Light Cavalry Officer’s sword, Corps of Guides; blade is the type of a Trooper’s sword and is curved,with a flat back, fuller, spear pointed and double edged at the foible; the maker’s name is etched on the blade, ‘Garden 200 Piccadilly, London’ and ‘Garden 248’; three-bar iron guard, with a plain back that curves into a plain pommel with a disc shaped tang; wooden grip covered in fish skin and bound with copper wire; owned by Maj Gen Sir Francis Howell Jenkins who was Commandant of the Corps of Guides from 1870-1884; he entered the Indian Army in 1851 when he got his first commission, he was second in command of the 1st Sikh Infantry, a colonel in the 57th Native Infantry and a member of the Staff Corps, and retired in 1886, as Hon Maj General.