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THBAmerican Naval Officer Sword
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About Auction
LiveOct 30, 2018
Cowan's is honored to present the Magnificent Sword Collection of William Koch in its two-day firearms, militaria, and American history auction, with a focus on the Civil War. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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American Naval Officer Sword
32.5" spear point blade with full-length stopped median fuller. 15" of the blade is brightly blued with gold gilt decorations including floral designs, panoplies of arms, WARRANTED in a floral ribbon and with the American Eagle holding a ribbon in it beak with the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM . 6" long gold gilt hilt with pillow pommel, reeded bone grip and 5-ball pattern knuckle bow and guard with a simple forward swept quillon terminating in a disc-shaped finial at the top. Grip with a gold gilt oval escutcheon with gilt cigar band depicting a stylized American eagle with a shield emblazoned with an anchor, all surrounded with thirteen stars and with a set of initials on the reverse of the band. A small lanyard ring is present below the pommel cap. No scabbard present. A really lovely early American Naval Officer's sword.
Provenance: From the Sword Collection of William KochFine. Blade retains much of the bright blue and gold gilt with some fading and loss, with the remaining portion of the blade showing a steel gray patina with freckled splotches of minor surface oxidation and age discoloration. Blade with some small areas of more serious oxidation as well and some light pitting around the ricasso. Hilt very good with much of the gold gilt remaining, bone grip with wear and some discoloration and with a 1.5" piece missing from the top center of the grip, behind the escutcheon band, running all the way to the pommel. Blade to hilt junction with some minor play, pillow pommel with some looseness and wobble.Condition
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