GREAT BRITAIN
Sword: 1885 Pattern Victorian Cavalry Troopers Sword Maltese Cross Hilt. Heavy, robust design. Includes all steel scabbard & hardened rubber grip rivetted to tang. Markings on ricasso 'WD'? '12E' 'M' As used by the 21st Lancers at Omdurman in 1898 in their cavalry charge against the Dervishes. Grease on blade. GC.