Description
each composed of 33 bayonets in the shape of a sunburst, mounted as a door tympanum around a painted bas-relief panel depicting a sun in splendour and featuring two brass Coldstream Guards cap badges (2)
Dimensions
74 x 150 x 7.5cms
Footnote
Provenance:
The Coldstream Guards
The Forbes Collection, Cañon House, Blanca Trinchera Ranch, Colorado
Note: These military trophies previously hung in the officers' mess of the Coldstream Guards and are made from 'Brown Bess' bayonets used at the battle of Waterloo.
Until recently, this trophy hung on the walls of the entrance hall of the Cañon House on the Blanca Trinchera Ranch which was acquired by Malcolm S. Forbes in 1981.