Sword
- Object Name:
- Sword
- Object ID:
- 1966.545.035
- Creator:
- Ames Manufacturing Company
- Place of Origin:
- Chicopee, MA
- Date:
- 1860
- Description:
- Sword. Noncommissioned Officer's Sword, Model 1840. 30" straight blade with fuller extending from ricasso to 1.5" of point. Brass hilt. Ribbed grip. Single flattened knuckle bow extending to quillon. Rounded pommel. Double kidney-shaped counterguard. "Made by / AMES MFG. CO. / CHICOPEE, / MASS." set inside scrolled paper, engraved on ricasso, obverse side. "U S / J.T. / 1860" stamped on ricasso, reverse side. "W.A.T." stamped on flat of knucklebow, obverse side. "J.T." and a star stamped on knuckle bow between counterguard, underside.
Scabbard: leather with brass throat band, tip, and drag. Brass hook attached to top band. - Material:
- Metal
Tissue - Dimensions:
- W-0.875 L-38.5 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Horace W. Harmon Collection. Sword belonged to John Colby Harmon of the Second Maine Infantry.
Entry #35 in Catalogue of Curios Collected by H. W. Harmon: "Orderly Sergts Sword Worn from 61 to 63 by Colby Harmon in 2d Maine Inft. Army of Potomac". - Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- Subjects:
- Armament, Weapons, Swords, Civil War, Military uniforms
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