Officer's dirk to the Cape Town Highlanders. Brass fittings. Blade - probably stanless steel - with no markings. Elaborate raised leaf brass mounts for the cairngorm stones mounted above the blades/fork. Handle of interweaved ebony with studs to the intersection points. Top mount locket with regimental crest in silver. Thistles to lower lockets and chape. Matching knife and fork ensuite with cairgorms.
Condition: Good overall
Ref 49. Cape Town Highlanders
1961
The regiment was formed in 1885 by Scottish immigrants to South Africa during the reign of Queen Victoria. The regiment wears the Gordon tartan, being allied with The Gordon Highlanders
- 1885 - raised as The Cape Town Highlanders
- 1906 - renamed The Duke of Connaught and Stathearn's Own Cape Town Highlanders
- 1913 - renamed 6th Infantry (Duke of Connaught and Strathearn's Own Cape Town Highlanders)
- 1948 - renamed The Queen's Own Cape Towm Highlanders
- 1961 - renamed the Cape Town Highlanders (upon independence)