Sword
- Object Name:
- Sword
- Object ID:
- 1996.516.10
- Creator:
- Palmer & Bachelders
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1846-1865
- Description:
- Sword. Non-regulation Staff and Field Officer's Sword. 31.1" slightly curved blade. Broad fuller extending 24" from ricasso to tip; narrow fuller, back of blade. Wood grip covered with leather and twisted gilt wire wrap; ferrule at base of grip with floral decorated backstrap extending to pommel. Phrygian helmet pommel. Single knucklebow with sword knot near pommel. Half-basket guard with many branches; American eagle on a shield over a panoply of flags and seven stars above, pierced on interior of guard. Small forward bent and pierced counterguard, reverse side. Scrolled quillon. "PALMERS + BACHELDERS. BOSTON." etched on back of blade. "US" and floral sprays etched on blade, obverse side. "E. PLUBIS UNUM" in banner in mouth of American eagle and floral sprays etched on blade, reverse side.
Scabbard: Leather with gilded metal throat, middle band, and tip; two carrying rings, one at throat and one at middle band. Drag at tip. - Material:
- Metal
Tissue - Dimensions:
- W-1.125 L-36.5 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Armament, Swords, Weapons, Military uniforms, Civil War
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