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Barnebys HQ
Brahegatan 10
BOX 5038
114 37 Stockholm
All auctions / Medals, Arms & Armour / Midshipman Proctor’s Sword for Valour at the Battle of Copenhagen
This curved sword has a blued steel German blade with an ivory cross-hatched grip bearing silver and gilt mounts in the form of a lion’s head and mane. The grip is mounted with an oval silver plaque engraved with the coat of arms (1801-1816 pattern) of King George III supporting a medal decorated with a fouled anchor; and the has reverse a similar plaque engraved with the monogram JP, probably for Midshipman James Proctor, surmounted by a naval coronet, within a garter inscribed ‘Battle of Copenhagen’ above the ship’s name ‘EDGAR’. The top of the blade signed in gilt ‘J.J. Runkel Solingen’. With belt and slings in a fitted mahogany box lined in green velvet.
Estimate:£125,000
Sold for:£125,000
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£125,000
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