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American Noncommissioned Officers Sword

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American Officers’ Sword
with Horn Grip, c. 1790

c. 1790, American Noncommissioned Officers’ Sword with Horn Grip, Fine.
27.5” curved blade with original gray-brown patina, and nicks along the cutting edge from actual use in battle! No scabbard. Overall sword length is 33”, including a lovely brass knucklebow, and dark horn grip. Tapered grip with incised grooves. There is a plain ferrule at the base of the grip, and the base of the pommel is banded to resemble a ferrule at the top. The pommel itself is six-sided and flares outward before flattening off in a slightly concave swing to the tang rivet. The knucklebow is a brass strap with chamfered edges bent in the stirrup pattern, and the quillon ends above the blade in a disc finial. See “The American Sword, 1775-1945” by H.L. Peterson, pp. 9-10.
The noncommissioned officers’ swords of the years following the American Revolution were not rigidly specified. The pattern in use and still preferred was a cutting sword with a brass mounted hilt and a blade about 30 inches long and at least an inch in breadth at the hilt. This sword fits the specifications well.

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