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View full screenSword, with curved blade and leather scabbard: Indian, pre 1803
H.MCR 46
Pre 1803
Indian
Sword with curved blade and leather scabbard with brass mounts featuring an inscription: ‘Presented to Lt Genl Sir John Macdonald K. C. B. By his Highness Shah Ahlam [sic] Emperor of the Moguls’.
Clanranald Collection of Jacobite and Family Relics
Previous owner: Shah Alam II, 1728 - 1806
Previous owner: Macdonald, John, Sir, Colonel, 1802 (fl.) - 1805 (fl.)
Battle: Battle of Laswari
War: Second Anglo-Maratha War
India, South Asia