Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction Signatures of Prime Minister Winston

Signatures of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

since it is the first British medal to be instituted and awarded using a dead monarch's cypher or effigy

in the void centre the numerals “43”

set above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of “1939” on a pebbled background

Circa 1930

Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction Signatures of Prime Minister WinstonAn unusual Ottoman Navy Officers dress sword, measuring 91 cm in total length. It features a 78 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a gentle curvature and with a narrow fuller running the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. Both the tip and lower edge retain their factory original sharpening. The blade bears double sided acid etched imagery consisting of central Ottoman crescents surrounding five pointed