Original British Crimean War Era Pattern 1831 Officer’s Mameluke Sword with Scabbard & Etched Queen Victoria Cypher Fusee Spring & Cover On February 10th

On February 10th

As an officially issued arm it is marked with CROWN over G

which caused great distress to the soldiers of the corps

Despite all of the repair work

Original British Crimean War Era Pattern 1831 Officer’s Mameluke Sword with Scabbard & Etched Queen Victoria Cypher Fusee Spring & Cover On February 10thOriginal Item. Only One Available. A Mameluke sword is a cross hilted, curved, scimitar like sword historically derived from sabres used by Mamluk warriors of Mamluk Egypt after whom the sword is named. Egypt was, at least nominally, part of the Ottoman Empire and the sword most commonly used in Egypt was the same as used elsewhere in the empire, the kilij. The curved sabre was originally of Central Asian Turkic in origin from where the style migrated