Lot 558
A MILITARY PRESENTATION DIRK
MID-19TH CENTURY
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 14 August 2019 at 11:00 BST
Description
blade signed Lockwood Brothers, Sheffield, the carved root wood handle with silver studs and flat pommel cap, engraved around the button 'Presented to Capt & Adjutant William Donaldson, Highland Light Infantry, by Major the Hon Alistair E. Fraser, Scots Fusilier Guards 1857', the tooled leather scabbard with engraved silver mounts and set with bi knife and fork, with spear point blade
Dimensions
36cm length of blade, overall length 48cm
Footnote
Note: Although the exact reason for the presentation of this dirk is not recorded it seems highly likely it will relate to the Highland Light Infantry's time serving in India during the Indian Mutiny. They served there between 1857 and 1863 after having seen service in the Crimea in 1854.