Originally Posted by
tartare
Thank you for those links LFH.
I've just read through the one about Burberry - fascinating story.
Knew a bit about the coat - grenade rings on the belt etc - but not about gaberdine.
Yes, I suspect you are right about the cutler.
DD - one wonders if cutting the cake was not acceptable - then at least being allowed to take the top off the champagne bottle...!
Pooley’s produce an informative ha handbook swords and expressly advise against trying to take champagne corks out with swords.
I recently sold a George V RAF sword that simply had ‘London Made’ on the blade and a London proofing mark In the centr of the star. These were typically sold to gentlemen’s outfitters; when my grandmother died, we found a Webley revolver in her bedside cabinet marked Army & Navy stores. It was from her second husband who had been a Lt Col in Round 1; I recall reading that up to 1915, officer had to buy their own pistols and swords.