Highland Broadsword with silver hilt

Scottish

National War Museum

1808

The etched blade is of the Highland military style. Incorporated within the hilt are gilt cartouches decorated with Stewart's arms and a badge of the 2nd battalion, 78th Highlanders with which the Lieutenant had fought in 1806.

• Medium: silver, steel, doeskin, velvet
• Art Fund Grant: £3000 ( Total: £12,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1998
• Vendor: Mr & Mrs A M Piepe

Provenance

Presented to Lieutenant-Colonel David Stewart of Garth. Unknown before 1997; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1997; two private collections; vendors.

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