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US MODEL 1860 MICHIGAN SABER BY AMES ID’D TO 10TH WISCONSIN CAVALRY PRIVATE

US MODEL 1860 CAVALRY SABER BY AMES ID’D TO 10TH MICHIGAN CAVALRY PRIVATE

The bright, slightly curved blade has a surface that shows only very minor amounts of mottling and no pitting. Blade measures approx. 35.00 inches long with a stopped wide fuller that meas. approx.… (2022-765). Learn More »

$1,250.00
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AMES MODEL 1860 CAVALRY SABER WITH SCABBARD, DATED 1864

AMES MODEL 1860 CAVALRY SABER WITH SCABBARD, DATED 1864

Classic Civil War cavalry saber made by Ames Manufacturing Company.  Sword is in overall good condition. Blade is semi-bright with a few very minor edge nicks. Ricasso is stamped with a well-worn… (1052-231). Learn More »

$795.00
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1788 PATTERN BRITISH HEAVY CAVALRY TROOPER’S SWORD

1788 PATTERN BRITISH HEAVY CAVALRY TROOPER’S SWORD

Measuring 42 ½ inches overall, with a 35 ¾ blade that is 1 ¼ inches wide at the guard, this sword has a leather wrapped grip bound with two twisted strands of wire. The hilt is iron, with a long,… (490-3554). Learn More »

RELIC PATTERN 1853 ENFIELD BAYONET

RELIC PATTERN 1853 ENFIELD BAYONET

Bayonet is complete with a full-length triangular blade, socket and frozen locking ring. All are encrusted with a thin layer of rust. No markings are visible. Location of recovery is not known.  … (490-3225). Learn More »

RELIC MODEL 1816 SOCKET BAYONET - POSSIBLE CS

RELIC MODEL 1816 SOCKET BAYONET - POSSIBLE CS

Bayonet is complete with a full-length triangular blade and socket with mortise. All is encrusted with a thin layer of rust. No markings are visible. Half-way down the length of one of the blades… (490-3272). Learn More »

US FOOT OFFICER'S SWORD CAPTURED BY A CONFEDERATE

US FOOT OFFICER'S SWORD CAPTURED BY A CONFEDERATE

The inscription on the throat of this very fine Model1850 Foot Officer's sword reads: “Captured at Battle of Winchester from 1st Lieutenant 5th Rhode Island Battery by John C. Carroll 1st Maryland… (88-158). Learn More »

$5,695.00
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CONFEDERATE NAVAL CUTLASS

CONFEDERATE NAVAL CUTLASS

This pattern of Confederate naval cutlass with cylindrical, grooved grip, wasp-waisted blade, and flat S-curved guard, was first thought to have a Virginia origin. Albaugh first guessed they were made… (1179-065). Learn More »

CONFEDERATE FROELICH SABER BAYONET WITH IMPORT SCABBARD

CONFEDERATE FROELICH SABER BAYONET WITH IMPORT SCABBARD

An 1864 Wilmington newspaper credits Froelich with 6,500 saber bayonets made from April 1, 1861, to March 1, 1864. McAden and Fonvielle estimate his total wartime production as perhaps 7,000. These… (1176-05). Learn More »

VERY ELEGANT AND VERY UNUSUAL BIRD’S HEAD POMMEL U.S. OFFICER SABER WITH SERPENT AND APPLE LANGETS

VERY ELEGANT AND VERY UNUSUAL BIRD’S HEAD POMMEL U.S. OFFICER SABER WITH SERPENT AND APPLE LANGETS

This saber has a silver washed brass hilt and scabbard, and very pretty tri-color blade etched with gilt-filled motifs on a blue ground alternating with bright-etched panels. The pommel is a modified… (766-1736). Learn More »

$1,850.00
Originally $2,200.00

INSCRIBED PRE-WAR MILITIA SWORD AND LATER CASED MAJOR GENERAL DRESS EPAULETS BELONGING TO MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT COLONEL ALEXANDER SHALER, 65TH NEW YORK INFANTRY

INSCRIBED PRE-WAR MILITIA SWORD AND LATER CASED MAJOR GENERAL DRESS EPAULETS BELONGING TO MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT COLONEL ALEXANDER SHALER, 65TH NEW YORK INFANTRY

Col. Shaler’s pre-war militia sword is presented here, made by “Horstmann & Sons/Makers Philada.” and so marked on the scabbard. The sword is a militia foot officer’s sword with a… (159-155). Learn More »

IMPORT NON-REGULATION FOOT OFFICER’S SWORD WITH UNUSUAL QUILL BACK BLADE

IMPORT NON-REGULATION FOOT OFFICER’S SWORD WITH UNUSUAL QUILL BACK BLADE

This attractive, non-regulation Foot officer’s sword has slightly curved blade. It measures 37.5” overall with a 31.5” blade. It is single-edged with a false edge on the top extending back about… (870-143). Learn More »

FAYETTEVILLE SABER BAYONET

FAYETTEVILLE SABER BAYONET

After the Harpers Ferry Armory was seized by Virginia forces in 1861, the machinery for making rifle muskets went to Richmond and that for the 1855 rifle went to Fayetteville, where it finally began… (1182-02). Learn More »

POST-CIVIL WAR 1859 CONTRACT USMC MUSICIAN'S SWORD BY HORSTMANN

POST-CIVIL WAR 1859 CONTRACT USMC MUSICIAN'S SWORD BY HORSTMANN

This sword is patterned after the Ames manufactured 1859 Marine musician's sword but this post-war specimen was made by Horstmann of Philadelphia. The Marine version of the musician sword had a half… (1179-042). Learn More »

BAYONET AND SCABBARD FOR THE M-1 GARAND RIFLE

BAYONET AND SCABBARD FOR THE M-1 GARAND RIFLE

The overall length of the drawn bayonet is 14.50 inches from point to pommel. The parkerized blade meas. 9 13/16 inches long. It has an unstopped central fuller and a true edge that is free of nicks.… (490-3239). Learn More »

SCARCE AND DESIRABLE AMES MODEL 1860 CAVALRY OFFICER’S SABER IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, EX- KEVIN HOFFMAN

SCARCE AND DESIRABLE AMES MODEL 1860 CAVALRY OFFICER’S SABER IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, EX- KEVIN HOFFMAN

This is a very good example of a very hard to find saber formerly in the collection of Kevin Hoffman and likely the same one shown on page 90 of Thillmann’s Civil War Cavalry and Artillery Sabers to… (870-625). Learn More »

FANTASTIC EXAMPLE OF A CONFEDERATE CAVALRY SABER WITH SCABBARD BY BOYLE & GAMBLE

FANTASTIC EXAMPLE OF A CONFEDERATE CAVALRY SABER WITH SCABBARD BY BOYLE & GAMBLE

The drawn saber meas. 38.50 inches from point to pommel. The blade is wonderful, it is bright and clean with only very minor scattered mottling. There is no fuller of any kind. The back of the blade… (1179-049). Learn More »

SCARCE US MODEL 1880 HUNTING KNIFE / MODEL 1892 ENTRENCHING TOOL: ONE OF FIVE HUNDRED

SCARCE US MODEL 1880 HUNTING KNIFE / MODEL 1892 ENTRENCHING TOOL: ONE OF FIVE HUNDREDHUNTING KNIFE

This is one of just five hundred produced after the redesignation of the M1880 knife as an entrenching tool in 1892 and is carried in the correct fifth type scabbard, introduced in 1890, using a… (490-3261). Learn More »

PRESENTATION MODEL 1840 CAVALRY OFFICER’S SABER BY AMES

PRESENTATION MODEL 1840 CAVALRY OFFICER’S SABER BY AMES

This impressive Ames Model 1840 cavalry officer’s saber was formerly in the well-known and widely respected collection of Kevin Hoffman. It is a very high end saber, bearing a rubbed  presentation… (870-271). Learn More »

$9,500.00
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IMPRESSIVE CIVIL WAR MODEL 1860 STAFF SWORD WITH RARE COUNTERGUARD MOTIF: ONE OF TWO KNOWN

IMPRESSIVE CIVIL WAR MODEL 1860 STAFF SWORD WITH RARE COUNTERGUARD MOTIF: ONE OF TWO KNOWN

When John Thillmann wrote US Army Swords, he knew of only one M1860 Staff sword using this impressively detailed, applied three-dimensional eagle motif on the obverse counterguard and regarded it as… (988-30). Learn More »

NATHAN STARR US NAVAL CUTLASS WITH RACK NUMBER

NATHAN STARR US NAVAL CUTLASS WITH RACK NUMBER

Starr contracted for 2,000 of these cutlasses 21 August 1826 and delivered them by June 1827, when they were inspected by Elisha Tobey. Scabbards were apparently specified after the signing of the… (597-15). Learn More »


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WONDERFUL HALF PLATE AMBROTYPE OF JOHN W. LEA, THREE TIMES WOUNDED, COLONEL 5th NORTH CAROLINA, AND CUSTER FRIEND, WITH W.R. JONES, C.S. CAPTAIN AND ASST. CHIEF OF ARTILLERY IN TEXAS, AND AS WEST POINT CADETS

This great image comes from the collection of the late Bill Turner, noted Virginia collector and dealer, and shows Virginian William Rice Jones at right with friend and fellow West Point cadet John Willis Lea of North Carolina at left. The… (1138-1774). Learn More »

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