Scabbard for stirrup hilted sword, owned by: 1) John Jervis, Earl St Vincent (1735-1823) - and 2) Captain James Everard Home (1798-circa 1854). The scabbard is black leather with two gilt lockets and a gilt chape. The lockets are 'D' shaped instead of rings ( a fashion abandoned in about 1810). The obverse side of the top locket bears the arms of Earl St Vincent with an escutcheon of pretence of his wife's arms (the Strong family of which she was an heiress).