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NAPOLEONIC BRITISH IRISH GRENADIER SWORD USED IN WAR OF 1812 THOMAS REID DUBLIN For Sale


NAPOLEONIC BRITISH IRISH GRENADIER SWORD USED IN WAR OF 1812 THOMAS REID DUBLIN


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NAPOLEONIC BRITISH IRISH GRENADIER SWORD USED IN WAR OF 1812 THOMAS REID DUBLIN:
$2295.00

PRESERVING HISTORY, NAPOLEONIC BRITISH IRISH GRENADIER SWORD MADE BY THOMAS REID DUBLIN .THIS SWORD WAS MADE FOR A WELL TO DO OFFICER IN THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN WAR OF 1812. MEASURES 32 INCHES LONG OVERALL WITH A 26 1/4 INCH WIDE BLADE.
[WAR OF 1812]. 1803 pattern British Light Infantry or Grenadier officer's sword made by noted Irish cutler John Reed, College Green, Dublin.

26 1/4 in. curved blade with clipped point. Overall length 32in. With sculpted & beveled guard and lion head pommel & backstrap. Pair of complementary lion heads set upon both langets (all yet retaining considerable gilt finish and/or gold plating). Grip is covered in thin black leather (lightly scuffed with a small number of quaint worm holes) and wrapped with two sizes of stranded twisted copper wire in a threefold arrangement (loose and shifted in certain areas, with several fully restorable breaks). Constructed of similar quality, the wide leather scabbard is adorned with three large & imposing scrolled-edge brass mounts, two equipped with carrying rings and the other serving as a tailpiece drag. Upon the top scabbard mount, the name of one of the scarcest and most desirable makers of the period, John Read, is exquisitely engraved and inscribed, together with the College Green location in Dublin where he practiced his trade from 1796 to 1817. Lightly blemished with gray metal finish throughout (save for a small amount of gold still upon the oval "WARRANTED" marking at hilt), blade is etched with the typical military motifs, most notably the British Seal. Provenance: Found at a farm sale in northern Ohio where the only military items advertised were ancestral Civil War diaries and letters, this lone piece having been a brought home by another family member who fought in the War of 1812 (accompanying description provided by seller).

A handsomely manufactured sword signed by noted Irish cutler John Read likely brought home from the War of 1812 by an Ohio soldier.


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