Lot 36
£693
Auction: Five Centuries: 15 November 2023 From 10:00
including two pairs of red coat and mess dress jackets, the smaller pair by Jones & Co, Regent Street Pall Mall, London; the second larger pair by Hawkes & Co, 14 Piccadilly W, both with handwritten canvas name labels, both red coats with regimental badges to the collars and cord epaulettes, both mess dress jackets with regimental buttons; together with an EDWARDIAN SCOTTISH OFFICER’S BASKET HILTED SWORD, by Hawkes & Co, London, the double-edged blade etched with initials, coats-of-arms, motto and dated 1902, with red silk tassel, fish skin and double wire handle, red canvas lined basket and steel scabbard; and a GEORGE V SCOTTISH INFANTRY OFFICER'S CROSS HILTED BROAD SWORD, by Hawkes & Co, London, double edged blade engraved with thistles and royal cipher for George V, fish skin grip bound with a single twist of silver wire, red silk tassel, contained in a leather field service scabbard
Provenance: Belonging to Major (Then Capt.) Alison [Alister] James Henryson-Caird (Scottish 1884 - 1950), The King's Own Scottish Borderers. The infantry officer's cross hilted broad sword likely to have belonged to his son Capt. Murray Alister Cooper James Henryson-Caird.