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HORSTMANN & SONS PHILADELPHIA 1840 CIVIL WAR OFFICERS CALVARY SWORD & SCABBARD
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HORSTMANN & SONS PHILADELPHIA 1840 CIVIL WAR OFFICERS CALVARY SWORD & SCABBARD
Price: US $830.00

FOR sale WE HAVE A HORSTMANN & SONS CIVIL WAR OFFICERS CALVARY SWORD WITH SCABBARD, MODEL 1840. SWORD BLADE IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, LITTLE GREYING OF METAL, HILT A BIT WOBBLY BUT BLADE TIGHT INTO HANDLE. ONE NICK ON THE BACK SIDE OF BLADE AS SHOWN IN PHOTO. VERY NICE LEATHER WRAPPED IN METAL WIRE GRIP, BRASS POMMEL, GUARD AND HILT. THE FOLLOWING IS SOME INTERNET INFORMATION I FOUND ON THIS MODEL AND SIZE SWORD.

Officer sabers were generally lighter than the enlisted sabers, utilizing many of the same design features but with significant variation or embellishments, and sometimes featuring design improvements adopted later in the official regulations. This saber was manufactured by Horstmann under the Model 1840 regulation but incorporates some design features adopted later in the 1860 regulation. This pattern is a \"campaign\" saber, featuring a minimum of adornments and was meant to be used by officers in the field. The blade has flat back typical of Model 1840 regulations, with narrow and wide fuller stopped at the ricasso, wooden handle has a swell typical of that adopted in the later Model 1860 regulation, handle is covered with leather and a wire grip, brass hilt has three branches, floral adornments on the branches but quillon is plain, brass pommel cap has floral adornment, pommel is typical Horstmann style, low dome with a wide rib, blade was never etched, iron scabbard with iron mountings, throat isbrazed and does not contain rivets. Marks:ricasso is stamped \"HORSTMANN / & SONS\" on ricasso left side, and \"PHILADELPHIA\" on ricasso right side. Blade length 32in.

SCABBARD IS GOOD, MINIMAL IF ANY DENTS IN METAL, BUT MISSING THE RING EDGE AROUND TOP. SEE PHOTO.

OVERALL LENGTH IS 37.25\", BLADE 32\"



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