1897 Royal Marines Officers Sword & Scabbard #89669
1897 Royal Marines Officers Sword & Scabbard #89669
1897 Royal Marines Officers Sword & Scabbard #89669.The Royal Marine Sword is based on the Infantry Sword pattern of 1897. The straight carbon steel blade of this sword is two-edged for the final section of its length and finely etched with the crest of the Royal Marines. The guard is a three-quarter basket hilt it is pierced and etched with a scroll pattern that incorporates the royal cypher of the current sovereign and is nickel-plated.
The grip is in black fish-skin normally shark skin bound with silver-plated copper wire.
The Royal Marine’s Sword is carried in a Sam Browne leather scabbard with plated steel mouthpiece for service wear and for full dress occasions.
This sword is in excellent condition for its age. It is numbered #89669 which according to Wilkinson Sword archives is circa 1964. Complete with the scabbard and outer carrying case.
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1897 Royal Marines Officers Sword & Scabbard #89669
The company was founded as a manufacturer of guns made in Shotley Bridge in County Durham, by Henry Nock in London in 1772.
Henry Nock began trading as a gunlock smith out of Mount Pleasant in London in 1772. In 1775, he formed Nock, Jover & Co. with William Jover and John Green. The American Revolutionary War led to strong sales for the new company. In 1776, the Board of Ordnance granted Nock, Jover & Co. an advance of £200 to start producing bayonets and in 1779 the company won a contract to produce 500 seven-barrelled volley guns for the Royal Navy. Although designed by James Wilson, these would become known as Nock volley guns or Nock guns.
When Henry Nock died in 1804, he left the company to his foreman and adopted son-in-law, James Wilkinson. When James's son Henry Wilkinson joined the company, it was renamed James Wilkinson & Son (also known as simply Wilkinson & Son). It became the Wilkinson Sword Company in 1891.
Throughout the 20th century, Wilkinson Sword produced ceremonial swords for the Household Cavalry of the British Army, and crafted the ceremonial sword for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2002. The sword factory combined state of the art manufacturing technology with traditional skills and 19th century machinery to produce original fighting quality swords. The company was also chosen to fabricate the Sword of Stalingrad in 1943.
The production of swords came to an end when the company's sword factory at Acton closed in September 2005. Wilkinson Sword then held an auction of the tools, equipment, sword drawings, and forging and milling machinery. Robert Pooley, who had commissioned the company to produce swords, bought many of these items and formed Pooley Sword to supply the Army in place of Wilkinson Sword. Other sword manufacturers, and in particular WKC in Germany, also bought items, including the roll forge. Many of the tools and machines remain in use, and classic knives such as the Fairbairn-Sykes are produced by both companies.
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