A Very Rare Royal Welsh Fusiliers Grenadier Hanger. 33” overall, 27 ¼” slightly curved blade with single fuller & the running fox Shotley Bridge maker’s mark. Brass half basket hilt with two ‘S’ panels above a heart shaped counterguard, embossed leather grip over a wooden core impressed with the pre 1751 regimental device of a Crown over Prince of Wales feathers and ‘Ich Dein’. In its contemporary, possibly original, brown leather scabbard with brass chape and frog hook.
Circa 1740.
Very rare sword in good condition.
See‘18th Century Weapons of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from Flixton Hall’ by Erik Goldstein. Pages 111-112 for similar but later hangers.