Sword

Description

Sword, with curved blade and leather scabbard: Indian, pre 1803

Museum reference

H.MCR 46

Object name

Sword

Date

Pre 1803

Style / Culture

Indian

Materials

Leather, Brass

Physical description

Sword with curved blade and leather scabbard with brass mounts featuring an inscription: ‘Presented to Lt Genl Sir John Macdonald K. C. B. By his Highness Shah Ahlam [sic] Emperor of the Moguls’.

Associations

Clanranald Collection of Jacobite and Family Relics
Previous owner: Shah Alam II, 1728 - 1806
Previous owner: Macdonald, John, Sir, Colonel, 1802 (fl.) - 1805 (fl.)
Battle: Battle of Laswari
War: Second Anglo-Maratha War
India, South Asia