![]() This is an excellent original French Foot Artillery Model 1771 Gladius Short Sword. **AMERICAN REVOLUTION & NAPOLEONIC WARS ERA**French Foot Artillery Model 1771 Gladius Short Sword / Side Arm With Scabbard Numbered ‘419’. The price for this excellent named sword to a decorated Officer includes UK delivery. All leather and stitching are clean and intact. The throat has a German silver insert and it retains its leather tab hanger strap. It is complete with leather covered wood field service scabbard. It has a curved stepped pommel with ball top and knurled back strap for grip, leather covered wood grip with wire binding in good condition. It has a full 1897 Pattern knuckle guard with King George V Crown & Royal Cypher. The blade also has an etched panel ‘Presented To Captain Goronwy Owen By His Golfing Friends March 1st 1915’ and has the ordnance acceptance star with inlaid brass proof roundel. One side has Kings crown Royal Cypher ‘GR V’ (George V Rex). The blade is etched on both sides with decorative foliate panels. The sword has a clean 33” long blade with partial fullers. This is an excellent WW pattern Infantry Officer's sword with presentation etched blade presented to Captain Goronwy Owen by his golfing friends in 1915 (a copy of a period portrait image of Goronwy Owen, the original of which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery London is illustrated in image 1). Owen was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarvonshire at the 1923 general election. He became president of British Controlled Oilfields which had interests in Venezuela and the Caribbean and was on the board of the Trinidad Petroleum Development Company as well as having interests in other commercial and trading companies. He became a member of the London Stock Exchange and went into the oil business. After the war, he was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn but the law was a subordinate interest to business and politics. By 1948 however he was being referred to as having achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was promoted to Brigade Major and twice mentioned in dispatches. He served in France and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1916. He worked as a schoolteacher in London until 1914 but then joined the London Welsh Battalion (15th Royal Welch Fusiliers) as an officer. ![]() He was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth where he gained an MA degree. Goronwy Owen was born at Penllwyn, Aberystwyth. **NAMED**WW1 Era British George V 1897 Pattern Sword With Presentation Etched Blade ‘Presented To Captain Goronwy Owen By His Golfing Friends March 1st 1915’ (Lieutenant-Colonel Goronwy Owen DSO & Twice Mentioned In Despatches 15th Royal Welch Fusiliers ) - 20769 The sword is accompanied by its original leather transit cover with full flap top and buckle fastener which is in excellent clean condition. The sword is complete with its black leather scabbard which has gilt brass mounts and 2 hanging rings. ![]() Attached to the guard is its original bullion cord and portepee. The sword’s fish skin grip with bullion wire binding is clean & undamaged. Strong’ most likely the name of the RN Officer who owned this sword. One side of the guard has a small hinged folding langet which, when folded flat fastens to a pin on the throat mount of its scabbard and holds the sword securely in place. It has a brass Lions head with mane pommel and grip strap & full knuckle guard with the Royal Navy Queen’s Crown and fouled anchor motif. The riccaso is marked on one side with the squirrel trademark of the German blade manufacturer Eickhorn, Solingen. Both sides of the blade have blued and etched panels including foliate decoration, Queen’s Crown ER(Elizabeth Regina) II & Queen’s Crown with Royal Navy fouled anchor device. The sword has a clean single edged straight blade which is 31 ½” in length (37 ½” overall) with central fuller. This is a near mint British Royal Navy Officer’s Sword and Scabbard. **MINT**NAMED**Post 1952 QE II British Pattern 1827 Royal Navy Officer’s Sword To ‘T.J Strong’ With Etched German Made Blade By Eickhorn Solingen, Bullion Cord, Portepee and Scabbard With Leather Transit Cover. ![]()
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