Jim. what are you doing with my sword?
IDed by the curator/director of the Higgins Armoury as mid century 18th and the sword came from Dominic Grant during a Scandic adventure. A late Wundes looking blade mark.
As to the sword of the thread and the 1796, David Critchley had written of Prussian patterns influencing the development of the British pattern.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061231...shinfantry.php
Cheers
GC