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Still think it would be a neat example...even just as an example of pipeback. Maybe it's what we thought, parts and an offshore colonial possession. Or hold onto it until you find out it's rare.

No idea except it would be more than I could afford for a sword.

Nice looking battle blade. Nice...

I read the order from Queen Victoria stating that "We'd be pleased if our officers would adopt a standard pattern of sword and the Snr NCOs would cease carrying the Spontoon..." Thought that was...

Is it possible it was assembled from parts...maybe a hundred years or so ago? Like from multiple swords?

Hard to tell from here but if no nicks them maybe not. Even our current officers played with their swords and those saw some unusual damages... No doubt though, at the time they were a battle...

The brass was an essential metal for cross guards and baskets, brass will take the edge of an opponent's blade and hold it as it digs in. This allows a parry. Steel later worked fine for using a...

I wonder if a more recent copy of a Navy sword scabbard would fit this one? Those can be had and then sell the blade separate... You'd need to actually fit it first though...

Last Pipebacks I...

VERY nice sword, that's a pipe back isn't it... Seldom seen except in museums, the scabbard would have been of leather wouldn't it? Just brass fittings, that's why they didn't survive. Nice.