A BRITISH INFANTRY HANGER BY SAMUEL HARVEY, MID-18TH CENTURY with curved blade double-edged towards the tip, cut with a slender fuller along the back edge and stamped with a running fox inscribed 'Harvey' on each side (worn), stamped with the number '9' beneath a crown at the forte, brass hilt of regulation type, stamped 'Gloster M-S-B' and '49', and spirally moulded brass grip 62.5cm; 24 5/8in blade Provenance Captain W. Korner, Sotheby & Co., London, 13th April 1970, lot 174 For a discussion of this type of hanger see A. D. Darling 1970 pp. 124-136.