£630
Auction: Five Centuries
including a Victorian Rifles' sword, with black shagreen grip bound with a double twist of brass wire, with Gothic hilt, regimental badge inset, with a leather sword knot, the etched blade with regimental decoration signed Hobson & Sons, serial number '45465', in leather covered field service scabbard, together with a George V Scots guards' sword, with black shagreen grip bound with a double twist of brass wire, with Gothic hilt, regimental star inset, the guard engraved 'Alan Swinton', the etched blade with regimental decoration signed Henry Wilkinson, in leather covered field service scabbard
Provenance: Kimmerghame, Duns, the Estate of the Late Major General Sir John Swinton K.C.V.O., O.B.E., D.L.