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A fine quality Victorian officer’s presentation sword of the Glossop detachment, 4th. (Stockport) Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment, the straight 84cm dumbell section blade, retailed by J & B Pearse & Co. Hart Street, Covent Garden, London, etched with crowned VR cypher, strung light infantry bugle, and intricate floral strapwork and within a central panel a presentation inscription, ‘ Presented to Lieutt. S.H. Wood by the non. commd. officers & men of the Glossop detachment, 4th. Vol. Batt. Cheshire Regt. on his attaining his majority, 21st. March 1893’ ornate copper-gilt guard based on that of the 1821 infantry officer’s pattern, cast and deeply chased overall with sprays of laurel leaves bordered with oak leaves, crowned VR cypher, backstrap and pommel cast and chased with strapwork, slotted tang-button for dismounting, black fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its burnished steel scabbard chased at the top and bottom with laurel leaves and strapwork, fitted with two ornate cast and chased copper-gilt suspension mounts and matching large ornate chape, blade with some slight rubbing at forte otherwise retaining all original finish, the copper-gilt mounts retaining almost all original gilding £1000-1200

Sir Samuel Hill-Wood Bart, born 21 March 1872, at Glossop, son of Samuel Wood of Moorfield, Derbyshire, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, married Hon. Rachel Anne, daughter of 2nd. Baron Bateman. Commissioned into the Cheshire Volunteers in 1889, attaining the rank of Captain he resigned his commission in 1902, rejoining his regiment in 1914 he transferred to the TF Reserve in 1918. He was DL and JP for Herefordshire, JP for Derbyshire, MP for High Peaks Division etc and sometime Chairman of Arsenal Football Club, he assumed the surname of Hill-Wood in 1910, created 1st. Bart in 1921, he died in January 1949.

Sold with some further research.