Original British Crimean War Era Pattern 1831 Officer’s Mameluke Sword with Scabbard & Etched Queen Victoria Cypher EXCLUDE_CHECKOUT_RESTRICTION ORDER NoW 535 A

ORDER NoW 535 A

along with other items from their service

credited with shooting down five Japanese fighters

instead of the usual 7

made totally of aluminum

Original British Crimean War Era Pattern 1831 Officer’s Mameluke Sword with Scabbard & Etched Queen Victoria Cypher EXCLUDE_CHECKOUT_RESTRICTION ORDER NoW 535 AOriginal Item. Only One Available. A Mameluke sword is a cross hilted, curved, scimitar like sword historically derived from sabres used by Mamluk warriors of Mamluk Egypt after whom the sword is named. Egypt was, at least nominally, part of the Ottoman Empire and the sword most commonly used in Egypt was the same as used elsewhere in the empire, the kilij. The curved sabre was originally of Central Asian Turkic in origin from where the style migrated