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Australian Light Horse Sword
SKU: AH3481A sword of the British pattern issued to the Australian Light Horse from mid-1918 — worth noting directly that this was not the sword of the famous 1917 charge at Beersheba, a popular point of confusion, since the Light Horse at that battle were not sword-equipped at all.
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British Pattern 1788 Heavy Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH6994The first attempt by the British Army to standardise cavalry swords, introduced in 1788 in two forms — one for light cavalry, one for heavy — a full decade before its far more famous 1796 successor refined the concept.
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British Martini-Henry Bayonet
SKU: AH3564A socket bayonet for the Martini-Henry, the single-shot breech-loading rifle that armed British and colonial forces through the late Victorian era, most famously at the 1879 defence of Rorke's Drift.
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Knuckle-Guard Cutlass
SKU: AH3491A cutlass fitted with a solid knuckle guard, blending naval close-quarters practicality with genuine hand protection, in the tradition of 19th century boarding and naval companion blades.
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Officer’s Full Dress Court Sword
SKU: AH4235A ceremonial dress sword worn as part of a complete military dress uniform for formal occasions and official ceremonies, carrying real symbolic weight despite not being intended for practical field use.
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French Officer’s Sword
SKU: AH3230A slightly curved French officer’s sword with a fullered blade, reflecting the well-balanced, dress-and-field dual-purpose design favoured by French Army officers through the 19th century.
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Light Cavalry Sword – British Pattern 1821
SKU: AH3215NThe British Pattern 1821 Light Cavalry Sword was the standard sidearm of the British light cavalry — hussars, lancers and light dragoons — through one of the most dramatic periods in British military history. From post-Napoleonic garrison duty through the Indian campaigns and the Crimean War, it was the blade at the hip of the most romantically celebrated soldiers of the Victorian era.
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French Infantry Briquet, 1831 Pattern
SKU: AH3206NA later, regulated version of the French infantry briquet, the compact sidearm nicknamed for its small, handy size — this 1831 pattern reflects the post-Napoleonic French Army’s continued reliance on the same short-sword concept for its infantry.
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British Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre
SKU: AH3317One of the most recognisable sabres of the Napoleonic Wars, designed by cavalry officer John Gaspard Le Marchant after he grew frustrated with the clumsy, over-long swords British light cavalry carried into the Low Countries campaign of 1793–95.
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Pattern 1912 British Cavalry Officer’s Sword
SKU: AH3233The officer’s counterpart to the Pattern 1908 trooper’s sword, sharing the same single-minded thrust-focused design that made the pairing the final and most refined expression of British cavalry swordsmanship.
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Enfield Sword Bayonet
SKU: AH3554A 19th century sword bayonet, long enough to double as a shortsword once fixed — a design developed so that riflemen, whose rifles were shorter than the muskets they replaced, could still form square and hold off a cavalry charge.
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Napoleonic Cuirassier Armour
SKU: AH6080This burnished steel cuirass, reinforced with brass-plated metal, is styled after the armour worn by heavy cavalry regiments across Europe during the Napoleonic Wars. Cuirassier regiments continued wearing breast and back plate armour into the 19th century for the real protective edge it offered against sword strikes and bayonet thrusts in close combat. Fully wearable, this reproduction suits both historical re-enactment and general costume use.
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This burnished steel cuirass, reinforced with brass-plated metal, is styled after the armour worn by heavy cavalry regiments of the Austrian army during the Napoleonic Wars. Cuirassier regiments across the major European powers wore breastplates of this kind into the early 19th century, one of the last widespread uses of body armour on the battlefield before it faded almost entirely into ceremonial dress. Fully wearable, this reproduction suits both historical re-enactment and general costume use.
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Pattern 1908 British Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH3481NOften called the most effective cavalry sword ever designed, the Pattern 1908 was the last service sword ever issued to British cavalry — built purely for the thrust from horseback, arriving just as swords themselves were becoming obsolete on the battlefield.
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British Royal Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH3215A basket-hilted British cavalry sword from the same post-Napoleonic Wars generation of ‘cut and thrust’ patterns that succeeded the purely cut-focused 1796 sabre, built with both cutting and thrusting capability in mind.
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A British light cavalry sword reflecting the post-Napoleonic Wars shift toward ‘cut and thrust’ patterns — a deliberate compromise design succeeding the purely cut-focused 1796 sabre once battlefield experience showed the value of a genuine thrusting capability too.
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Dutch Cavalry Sword
SKU: AH3420A basket-hilted Dutch cavalry sword — worth correcting directly that despite older listing copy describing this as a Medieval piece, its full-tang construction and basket-hilt guard place it firmly within the 18th-19th century European cavalry sword tradition, not the Middle Ages.
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French Napoleonic Infantry Briquet Sword
SKU: AH3206A short infantry sidearm of the type nicknamed ‘briquet’ by French troops — a term borrowed from the period slang for a cigarette-lighter or fire-striker, applied affectionately to these compact swords for their small, handy size compared to the full-length infantry sabre.
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Still in continuous official use since 1831, this curved, cross-hilted sabre owes its distinctive form to Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign — and its adoption as the regulation sword for British generals to the personal taste of the Duke of Wellington himself.
