00:00I
00:30Here we have a scimitar type sword here with a stone handle. It's a Moorish weapon
00:53The scabbard here brass mounted, of course
00:56decorated shapes and
00:58There's the all-important description
01:01With the brass look at the top there
01:05You'll notice the blade is a plain steel blade it's designed for working
01:09It's not a decorative thing bit of Damascene going on, but it's got an edge to it
01:13So this is a fighting weapon and it was whilst he was a escort in Northumberland that he was dispatched to Jersey
01:19to pick up a large cargo of wine that seems that Napoleon had forgotten to bring his own wine and
01:25so Carly White goes to
01:27Jersey picks up some wine and then follows on to St Helena and it seems that he got on well with the Emperor
01:33They obviously struck up a rapport and I think perhaps that two professional men in the military would would do so
01:40clearly Napoleon responded well to a man of intelligence and vigor that the Carly White must have been and
01:46That's why he gave him a sword as a thank-you for this little errand perhaps. I mean if it wasn't for the association with Napoleon
01:55The sword itself isn't actually that special. It's a fairly
02:00Standard piece of kit. It's you see quite a lot of them on the market
02:03And I don't suppose Napoleon had any great need to keep it as he must have had a lot of bits and pieces lying around
02:09And so yes
02:10It's a logical gift for a military man to have if it wasn't for the association of Napoleon
02:15It'd be less than a thousand pounds, but you don't get many swords associated so directly with Napoleon
02:21context and I believe
02:24Possibly a slightly more flamboyant sword sold for a great deal more in France not so long ago
02:29So we're somewhere in the middle with a lesson less lamp less flamboyant sword
02:33but still something that Napoleon owned and gave so the the sword the sword is part of a group of
02:39Four swords all with associated this this family
02:44and
02:45They the family the they went they've been the direct descendants of Carly White
02:51but the
02:53They've moved sideways within the family
02:55So the association to the the sea and the Navy has now been lost and the family to be honest didn't really know what to
03:00Do with them anymore?
03:01They weren't
03:03They're not interested in military things now
03:05So that's why they got in touch with us and said look we realize they're not being well looked after by us
03:11It's now time to get rid of these things because we don't really
03:14Have a use for them, and we don't know what to do with them
03:23You
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