1ST MAINE CAVALRYMAN’S RAZOR

1ST MAINE CAVALRYMAN’S RAZOR

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Item Code: 302-118

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A horn-handled razor cased in a sewn brown leather tube with removable plug at one end, 7” long and 1-1/4” in diameter. The tube was lightly carved with a pair of crossed sabers, edges down, with “1” in the upper angle and “ME” in the side angles. A small set of initials is crudely carved on the fixed end plug. We are not certain of the reading. Please see our photos. One guess was “DV,” but we find no likely candidate.

The razor itself has thin, yellow horn sides, pinned at either end. There are some small chips along the upper edge of one side of the horn and at its tip, and some verdigris on the brass pins at either end, but it is solid. The blade is marked on one side, “JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS / CUTLERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES / No 6 NORFOLK STREET / SHEFFIELD” with a small Maltese cross and a star at upper left. We are uncertain of the date of the razor, but it could well be a later razor owned by the veteran who had kept his earlier carrying case for it. Whoever he was, the inscribed unit insignia is unambiguous.

The 1st Maine Cavalry had an extensive service history and combat record from their organization in November 1861 to muster out in August 1865, losing the greatest number of officers and men killed in battle of any cavalry regiment in the Union army: 15 officers and 159 enlisted men. Their battle honors include most of the major eastern theatre campaigns and battles: Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Kilpatrick’s Raid, Todd’s Tavern, and scores of other campaigns and engagements. Extensive histories of the regiment are available in print and online, as well as rosters of members and veterans so it might be possible, with better eyes and more determination to make an identification, but this is a very desirable and hard unit from which to find any related material and the case has a good look for display of camp gear or personal items.  [sr][ph:L]

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