Lachlan Macquarie's sword and scabbard

Officer's sword and scabbard of New South Wales Colonial Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

1803 Pattern British infantry officer's sword that has a deeply curved unfullered single-edged blade. The blade is etched along half its length with designs including a crown that surmounts the Prince of Wales’s plumes and motto, and crossed pikes with halberd, all interspersed with floral motifs. The flat back of the blade is marked “J J Runkel, Solingin”. The blade has been damaged or repaired about 75mm from the tip.

The handgrip is of wood covered in fishskin bound with wire, and is capped by a lion's head pommel. It is guarded by a squarish gilded brass half-basket hilt, composed of a cross-guard linked to the pommel by a knuckle bow and two curved bars. The number of Macquarie's regiment “73” is engraved in a disk on the knuckle bow, and the bars of the hilt frame a large thistle in relief, a symbol that was popular with Scottish highland regiments.

The sword has a curved black leather sword scabbard with three gilded brass mounts, including a locket or throat with a frog button, a middle-band mount with a carrying ring about a third of the way down the scabbard, and a relatively long chape.