Description
1827 pattern Rifle Officers Levee sword made by S.J Pillin, Gerrard Street, Soho, etched blade, 23 mm wide at ricasso, with Imperial crown one side and strung bugle with '21 Middlesex Rifle Volunteers' to the other, proof mark and makers name to ricasso, Gothic hilt with Victoria crown over strung bugle, shagreen grip bound with wire, held in steel scabbard with two carrying rings, straight blade unusual for a Rifle Officers sword, however, officers were given considerable freedom in choosing the exact details of the blades being mounted in regulation style hilts, so long as their swords looked approximately regulation when worn, 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteers were the ancestors of the 11th Battalion the London Regiment, the Finsbury Rifles