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AN AMERICAN MOUNTED INFANTRY OFFICER'S EAGLEHEAD SABER
Curved fullered blade with 9 inch false-edge is embellished with gilt floral motifs and tweo bright-etched panels on a blued field, silver-plated brass hilt with eagelhead and inverted eagle-claw and ball quillon, diagonally grooved bone handle, silver-plated brass mounted on original leather scabbard.
28 inch blade
Staining and some pitting to blade with blue finish fading, scabbard body sound.
Curved fullered blade with 9 inch false-edge is embellished with gilt floral motifs and tweo bright-etched panels on a blued field, silver-plated brass hilt with eagelhead and inverted eagle-claw and ball quillon, diagonally grooved bone handle, silver-plated brass mounted on original leather scabbard.
28 inch blade
Staining and some pitting to blade with blue finish fading, scabbard body sound.
Provenance
Philip Medicus Collection
Norm Flayderman
The Present Owner
Norm Flayderman
The Present Owner
Literature
Mobray, Stuart, American Swords form the Philip Medicus Collection, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, page 110, item 51f.