Original British Victorian P-1827 Rifle Regiment Officer's Sword by W. Jones & Co. with Scabbard - circa 1850 U.S. Artwork & Posters Stephen Cassin (1783 - 1857)

Stephen Cassin (1783 - 1857)

It still retains its long leather throng used to bind the scabbard to the left forearm where it could be easily accessible to a Whirling Dervish

950 made in 1970

but quite delicate and dried out

cheering as he raises his fixed bayonet rifle over his head

Original British Victorian P-1827 Rifle Regiment Officer's Sword by W. Jones & Co. with Scabbard - circa 1850 U.S. Artwork & Posters Stephen Cassin (1783 - 1857)Original Item: Only One Available. Expressly designed for Officers of the rifle regiments being formed all over England in the early Victorian era, many of whom were volunteers. These units traced their roots back to the old volunteer regiments of the Napoleonic Wars when the Duke of Cumberland's Sharpshooters were formed as a Corps of Riflemen on 5 September 1803. During the 1850s and 1860s these started to be formed again, culminating with the