A U.S. MODEL 1850 VARIANT STAFF AND FIELD OFFICER'S PRESENTATION SWORD. Brass hilt with openwork spread wing eagle and flag counter-guard, star quillon, the decorated knuckle bow connecting to an eagle's head pommel with back strap, ray skin covered grip with twisted brass wire wrapping; curved single-edge blade with false edge at the tip, single narrow and single wide fuller, the blade with etched 'U.S.', foliate scroll, eagle and panoply of arms decoration and ricasso marked 'EISENHAUER'; green leather scabbard with eagle and crossed cannon barrel decorated mounts, the throat engraved 'PRESENTED/TO/Lieut Thos Adams Bayley/Co F. 4th New York H. Artillery/BY THE/Non Comd Officers & Privates.' Blade lg. 32, overall lg. 37 5/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Wallis & Wallis auction, Sussex, England. Note The Roster of the 4th New York Volunteer Artillery in Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York, for the Year 1896 (Albany and New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1897), p.609, describes Bayley's service: 'Aged, 22 years. Enlisted, November 21, 1861, at New York; mustered in as first sergeant, Co. F, November 26, 1861, to serve three years; mustered in as second lieutenant to date, December 13, 1862; as first lieutenant, January 1, 1863; as adjutant, February 18, 1862; transferred to Battery F, as first lieutenant, date not stated; dismissed for desertion, July 28, 1863; commissioned second lieutenant, December 18, 1862, with rank from October 3, 1862, vice Kennedy, promoted; first lieutenant, May 26, 1863, with rank from March 6, 1863, vice Van Name, resigned.' For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing