British Pattern 1804 Cutlass : Royal Navy

British Pattern 1804 Cutlass. The black painted hilt has a sheet steel guard in the form of two discs and a cast iron ribbed grip. The straight flat blade is marked with a crown over GR on the left side. The black leather scabbard has a brass chape and a long brass frog stud near the throat that has the front part of the frog attached.

This type of cutlass was issued to the Royal Navy during the early part of the 19th Century and would have been standard equipment on a British ship of the line guarding the colonial empire.