Anglo Indian sword - ID needed!

[Jim McDougall]

As previously noted, this is the British 'style' hilt (termed 'Gothic') which was produced in those years and through the 19th century with the Royal cypher of the monarch in the oval cartouche. There are early ones with George IV and William IV but mostly of course the cypher of Queen Victoria.

Using the same hilt style, often the cartouche was replaced with pertinent symbols, emblems etc for examples made for Ceylon, Nepal and others.
It is in this styling convention that I think this example was produced, however crudely, in some capacity in India.

Despite the clearly modern association with the thunderbolt figuratively with communications, radio etc. and the suggestion to German influence as with examples of the symbols shown.......clearly the triple lightning bolt symbol transcends national denominator (the US Signal corps). Therefore it seems most plausible this example was made in India, early 20th c. for some unit not necessarily military with these kinds of communications association.