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Offered is a 1908 Pattern British or Australian Army Trooper’s Cavalry sword – the type famously used by the Australian Light Horsemen. The Sword features a 89cm long single edged blade with fuller. The blade is in very good condition, being clean and unsharpened, with light service wear overall. The ricasso is marked MOLE (Robert Mole of Birmingham) and manufacture dated August 1915. The hilt is fitted with its original leather washer. The spine is marked for P08. It has the correct full bowl (brown enamel painted interior) guard and thatched brown composite grip with thumb recess. It is complete with its brown painted steel scabbard, showing light service wear with fixed hanging rings. Overall length: 113 cm. The sword shows light use and manufactured in only the 2nd year of the Great War.