Object Description
An ormolu-mounted naval presentation scimitar of Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth. With oriental curved single-edged blade damascened in gold with a Turkish inscription ‘pellou…serdümen’ against a dotted ground, the hilt with an ivory grip and tapering quillons each terminating as a hand grasping a ball, grip mounted on one side with a gilt plaque engraved ‘W to EP’, and on the other with a fouled anchor. The inside of the grip is later mounted with a gilt rectangular plaque engraved ‘This Sword of Ad.l. Visc.t Exmouth Presented to his Flag Lieu.t & attached Friend Captn. J.S.W. Johnson R.N. By F.B.R.P. 1845.’ In the original oriental wood- lined ormolu scabbard embossed and chased throughout with scales. Circa 1815