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Grip is wood covered with fishskin and bound with brass wire; Guard is gilt brass with sword slit near pommel.
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Royal Engineers Officer's sword Pattern 1857 was the first special sword pattern adopted by the Royal Engineers
for its own use from 1857 to 1897. Prior to 1857, the infantry pattern swords were used, which included the pattern 1822 and 1845. The Pattern 1857 was
described in the ordinary Army Dress Regulations of 1857 and in the Regulations for the Dress and Appointments of the
Corps of Royal Engineers (April 1857) in virtually the same terms:
"Regulation pattern blade for Infantry, 32 1/2 inches long by 1 1/8 inches wide, hilt of rolled metal, guilt, scroll pattern, pierced and engraved."
The guard described as "scroll" pattern would be more accurately described as a honeysuckle pattern. The scabbard was made
of steel except for field officers, which was made of brass. In 1874 the Dress Regulations introduced minor change that the
field officers attached to the Royal Engineer troops and field companies were to carry steel, not brass scabbards. In 1892,
a new straight blade (1 inch wide) was adopted for the infantry sword, and it was adopted in due course by the Royal Engineers. In 1897
the pattern 1857 was replaced with the Infantry Pattern 1897 sword hilt for the Royal Engineers.
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Royal Engineers, Officer, Pattern 1857
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Grip is wood covered with fishskin and bound with brass wire; Guard is gilt brass with sword slit near pommel.
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Blade length 32 1/2 inches; width 1 1/8 inches
Curve blade same as Infantry Officers Pattern 1845
Stright blade (1 inch width) used from 1892 to 1897
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