A Rare 1798 Pattern Sergeants Sword to 42nd Foot ‘Black Watch’. 37” overall, 31 ½” double edged blade with narrow central fuller on each face at the forte, brass highland basket hilt of slender rounded bars framing plain panels, slender fore guards, flat wrist guard, bun shaped pommel, spirally grooved fish skin covered grip.
Circa 1800
Hilt in good condition with no breaks, lacks grip wire, blade darkly patinated. No scabbard
See Brian Robson ‘Swords of the British Army’ 1996, pp. 189-90, no. 183