EXCAVATED BRITISH 1796 PATTERN SABER WITH GETTYSBURG TAG

EXCAVATED BRITISH 1796 PATTERN SABER WITH GETTYSBURG TAG

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Item Code: 490-7599

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No markings are visible but the pattern is clearly a British 1796 light cavalry saber, measuring 36-12” overall with a 32” blade and instantly recognizable from its iron stirrup hilt and shield-shaped langets, rounded birdshead pommel and curved, single-edge blade with a wide fuller. This is excavated condition, showing a crusty deep brown surface with some lighter reddish brown- more on the obverse than reverse, missing the leather and wood grip, of course, but otherwise complete, with full length, curved, single-edge blade, full guard with langets and knucklebow, backstrap with side-ears that transitions into the birdshead pommel, and a ferrule in position at the guard. The blade shows roughness to the edge on the lower half and a half-dozen or so small nicks from there to the tip, which preserves a good point.

This comes with an older, perhaps fifty or sixty years, string tag reading “excavated at / Gettysburg / Pa.” We do not have any provenance beyond that and there is no date or specific location for the find. The pattern does not seem to have been run-in through the blockade, at least in any significant number, though if in the hands of any cavalryman in the campaign he would likely be southern, perhaps carrying an older militia piece or family heirloom. The pattern was popular at its time, with a number of American sabers of the late Federal and War of 1812 era following its lines.  [sr][ph:L]

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