A rare Victorian cavalry officer's sword, featuring a patent solid hilt and unusual lenticular blade with ricasso. Unfortunately the etching is obscured or polished off and the proof slug is missing, so there is no way to be certain who made this sword, however from my experience I would say that it is probably not a Wilkinson and probably not a Pillin. Not many other makers were making patent solid hilts, so it is perhaps a Garden, Thurkle or Mole. The blade is even more unusual than the hilt, being of what Wilkinson termed 'lenticular' type, having bevels to front and back, but only really coming to an edge at the front. Though in this case the sword is not service sharpened. The length of the blade is rather odd, at 29 1/2 inches. It would be tempting to suggest that it has been shortened, though the shape of the tip looks good and the old patina is completely even from the rest of the blade to the tip, so if it was shortened then it was presumably done during the Victorian period. The sword is all solid with no movement in any parts. A very unusual sword that would sit well in any Victorian sword collection, or non-regulation sword collection.
