Length: 34cm (13in)
Provenance: Viscount Naas, Grenadier Guards
Paper knife in the form of an 1845 Pattern British Infantry Officer’s Sword, with ‘Gothic hilt’ and crowned Queen Victoria cypher. The ricasso engraved with interlocking triangles, and the blade with foliate scrollwork crowned QV cyphers and the N monograpm and coronet of the former owner, Lord Naas who was thus styled between 1867-72. Maker’s mark of Edward H. Stockwell. Hallmarked 1871.
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Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo (1851-1927) was styled Viscount Naas from 1867 until the assassination on his father Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo and Viceroy of India while inspecting a convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands by Sher Ali Afridi, a former Afghan soldier. Lord Naas was then a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He afterwards served as an Irish representative peer in the Lords (1890–1921) and as member of the Senate of Southern Ireland (1921–1922) and Seanad Éireann (1922–1927).
