An 18th-century English basket-hilted cavalry sword, broad single-edged blade 35.4 in. with long

An 18th-century English basket-hilted cavalry sword, broad single-edged blade 35.4 in. with long spear point, one broad and one narrow fuller, three shallow channels to each side of the ricasso, engraved with the crowned cypher of George II to both sides and 'HARVEY'* to the inside; basket hilt formed from flat bars supporting a central guard plate, two side plates and two intermediate plates, all variously pierced with hearts and holes, and with a short back quillon; heavy flattened ovoid pommel with flaring tang button, later wire bound leather grip.

Ex. Robert Brooker Collection

This sword is illustrated in Robert Brooker, 'British Military Pistols and Associated Edged Weapons', p. 109, wherein it is described as an "English cavalry sword perhaps for the Royal Horse Guards"

* Possibly Samuel Harvey, Birmingham, 1748-78.