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This saber, as well as the one on the previous page, were used in the 18th century by the Royal Navy “R.A.” just as it says on their respective bowls.
There is no exact record of who it belonged to, so any gunner or sailor could have been its user, but it is most likely that he was from the Marine Corps, although it is also possible that he was a Sergeant's, due to its better finish, quality and lower weight.
- GARNISH: completely made of gilded brass, very robust, with an asymmetrical bowl marked with the initials “RA” of the Royal Navy. Handle, also made of gilt brass with a tapered hexagonal section, globular knob on a diabolo base and with a large knob. Simple ring, which with a strange curvature, starts from the bowl and, in progressive narrowing, goes to its anchorage in the knob. What remains to be highlighted is a simple and straight rooster.
- BLADE: straight and wide. To the outside running edge to the tip. Inside, spine in the first third and counter edge in the rest, which gives a single table in the strong third and three in its middle and thin thirds.
- INSCRIPTION: BY MY KING CHARLES III. In the bowl «RA»
Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (spadologist)
