Length: 30cm (12in)
Hunting knife with broad steel blade single-edged at the point. The ricasso stamped name of the Royal warrant holder ‘Clark / 33 New Bond Street’. beneath the cross-guard, with cross-hatched grips to the handle, one side applied with a presentation plaque engraved with the Heir Apparent’s crown over the Prince of Wales’s feathers and monogram G for Prince George (later George V, reigned 1910-1936). Contained in original leather sheath.
A fine relic of the big game hunting in which George, Prince of Wales freely indulged during the 1905-06 royal tour to India and Burma. Before the age of wildlife conservation, the Indian princes organised extravagant ‘shikars’ for British VIPs to exhibit their wealth and display their organisational skills, as well as offering opportunities to lobby on sensitive issues.