| Rick'ys Big Collection |
Swords |
| Description |
Brass hilt
Modified double shell guard, hook for forefinger or thumb in guard
Straight blade (no fuller), rounded spear point
Leather scabbard, missing tip
Brass frog keeper
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| Material |
Brass/Leather/Steel/Wood/Sennit twine |
| Object ID |
1913.176.001A&B |
| Object Name |
Sword & scabbard |
| Subjects |
Sword used in Revolutionary War, history unknown
Due to blade length, possibly cavalry saber. Blade probably hand forged and mated with a foreign hilt. The mating of different components (i.e. blades and hilts, barrels and stocks) from several different sources was a very common method of making both swords and firearms in early New England. Thrifty New Englanders made due with what they had, since the British Crown placed heavy restrictions on the importation of weapons on any kind. The heavy brass hilt indicates Germanic origins, while the lack of a fuller (the channel down the center of the blade, sometimes wrongly called a "blood groove", but in fact a weight saving device) points to it being hand forged.
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| Used |
Revolutionary War |
| Year Range from |
1775 |
| Year range to |
1783 |
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