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A LARGE SPEAR-POINT KNIFE, CIRCA 1870
The heavy spear-point blade marked near guard, If Your Pushed Into A Bind/Show Your Mettel and Ill Show Mine/If God, Country, Honor, Be On Your Side/So Am I- Wield Me With Pride, oval cross guard, mother-of-pearl grip scales overlaid with decorative pierced silver engraved with florals, retaining nut at pommel
11.5 inch (29.2cm.) blade
Motto added at a later date.
The heavy spear-point blade marked near guard, If Your Pushed Into A Bind/Show Your Mettel and Ill Show Mine/If God, Country, Honor, Be On Your Side/So Am I- Wield Me With Pride, oval cross guard, mother-of-pearl grip scales overlaid with decorative pierced silver engraved with florals, retaining nut at pommel
11.5 inch (29.2cm.) blade
Motto added at a later date.
Literature
Conger, Roger N., Texas Collector: Gaines de Graffenried, Texian Press, Waco, 1987, page 30.