Original British Napoleonic P-1804 "Figure Eight" Naval Boarding Cutlass with Scabbard - Battle of Trafalgar Period MG 15 and the 455th Squadrons flew

and the 455th Squadrons flew the Southern route across the Atlantic

This unusual helmet has a Comb Top and an Enameled Helmet plate displaying the region's Coat of Arms

Newspaper reports state that Bainbridge himself always carried a revolver during this period so we speculate that this small Colt was most likely Mary Bainbridge's gun

There is also a faint H

of Monmouth

Original British Napoleonic P-1804 "Figure Eight" Naval Boarding Cutlass with Scabbard - Battle of Trafalgar Period MG 15 and the 455th Squadrons flewOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is very special and very hard to find. This is a very FINE example of the ROYAL NAVY'S "figure of Eight" Boarding Cutlass as used at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The iron guard is shaped in what is referred to as a figure of eight in that it is constructed of two attached iron discs being both the sword guard and the knuckle guard all cut from one sheet of iron. The iron grip is heavily ribbed for secure