A Fine & Rare 1822 Pattern Infantry Officers Pipe Back Sword. 37 ½” overall with 32” slightly curved pipe back blade, double edged for the last 9" & etched on each side with the crowned GR cypher of George IV, and Andrews 9 Pall Mall London and foliage, in a cartouche, gilt brass Gothic three bar hilt with crowned GR IV cypher, with folding guard, sword knot slit near pommel, stepped pommel with tang button, acanthus decoration on the backpiece, fish skin grip with twisted brass wire. In its original black leather scabbard with two engraved gilt brass mounts, frog stud engraved ‘Andrews 9 Pall Mall London’ in a tablet.
Circa 1822-25
Sword in very good condition with all blade polish & hilt gilt, scabbard leather slightly dry.
In 1826 sling mounts were adopted so all scabbards were fitted with loose rings after that date.
John Andrews Golden Square 1808-18,18 Pall Mall 1819-20, 9 Pall Mall 1821-25. William Andrews 9 Pall Mall 1826 -1835.
By Appointment to the Prine Regent GR IV and later William IV.
This sword is rare as it is a very early example of the 1822 Pattern Infantry Officer’s sword, described by Brian Robson in his book “Swords of the British Army The Regulation Patterns 1788-1914 as “an elegant, even beautiful, weapon but both guard and blade are painfully weak.”
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