FASCINATING CONFEDERATE "DOG RIVER" CAVALRY SABER

FASCINATING CONFEDERATE

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Item Code: 1000-842

A no-doubt-about-it Confederate cavalry saber, complete with its original scabbard, falling into the “Dog River” category. William A. Albaugh a pioneer in the study and classification of Confederate weapons referred in one of his writings to a newspaper article published in the deep South during the Civil War that spoke of swords currently under production at a place called "Dog River". Which meant to Albaugh, a hundred years later, a place he could not pin-point. Thereafter swords that looked Confederate in manufacture but to whom no known maker could be attributed became classified as "Dog River".

This "Dog River" 100% authentic and unaltered sword that screams "Dixie" was found in Virginia and has been in one of the finest Confederate collections for decades. The sword is massive and it has elements that are typically Civil War but other features that harken back to the eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. This cavalry saber is a provincial product using a prototype of a bygone day and in this case a blade that may actually date to the American Revolution; that is an heirloom and "retro fit".

The blade on this sword measures 34 inches in length and is 1 1/2 inches wide at the hilt. It is pyramidal in cross-section, has no blood gutter and a 3 1/2-inch clipped point. It is in excellent condition with no pitting or rust of any consequence. This well-made flawless blade looks very much like those found on pre-Pattern English dragoon swords of the American Revolution. If not this then it is a blade of US manufacture dating no later than 1815. Around this blade was constructed a totally custom and compatible iron scabbard. This scabbard is so typically Confederate with brass throat and crude brass suspension rings. The scabbard, once painted black (about 20% paint remains), is crudely but efficiently and effectively constructed. Full of defects and flaws it is wonderful to behold.  The hilt is of the Model 1840/60 type with the 3-branch guard. The brass work is 100% Confederate; it has a great deep plum brown patina and bears the number "XXI". The awkward wooden grips are leather covered. 90% of the leather is intact and is bound with 6 stands of untwisted copper wire.

This sword is in outstanding condition and other than a museum quality leather preservative applied to the flaking grips and a leather washer replaced by this compiler between the blade and hilt nothing has been done to this sword since it was made ca. 1861. This is connoisseur quality and worthy of the most advanced Confederate sword collection.    [pe] [ph:L]

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