"British officers and NCO swords / sabres" Topic

Would the metal parts, like hilt, sabre guard, metal of the fittings on the scabbard go according to button colour or just the usual brass respeictivly gilded sabre guards?
Like in the Prussian Army, infantry, it would be brass all the time, it didn't matter what button colour the regiment had.
Franklin suggest that – at least for officers in the British army this was different.

Franklin says that there were gilded brass officers swords for gold mettalled regiments and of silver fittings and scabbard, with some records of steel scabbards for silver metalled regiments.

from 1803 the 95th and 60th used steel metalled swords. Before 1803 the 60th used gilded brass.

Paul :)

As Paul says there were variations between the 'gold' and 'silver' buttoned regiments for the officers. For NCOs and musicians, the fittings were always brass regardless.

Thank you both

If my memory is correct I believe for the cavalry all hilts were steel with the exception of the household units which were brass/gilded.
Corrections accepted been a while since read books.

The Houshold cavalry had steel.

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Paul :)

@dibble
I sit corrected must have been a picture of a dress sword I had floating around in my memory.

Yes they did and it looked like this:

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Paul :)