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THBEarly American 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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Early American Naval Officer Sword
32.625" spear point blade with full-length stopped median fuller. 16" of the blade is brightly blued with gold gilt decorations including floral and foliate designs, panoplies of arms 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. Guard with a fouled anchor set in it. Obverse face of guard with the touch mark FT, possibly for Francis Thurkle. Grip with a gold gilt oval escutcheon with gilt cigar band engraved with a fouled anchor, band and escutcheon with simple geometric boarder line engraving that is continued around the grip ferrule and the pillow pommel. Small lanyard ring at base of pommel cap. No scabbard present. A 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, flaking and loss, with the remaining portion of the blade showing a mostly bright steel gray patina with freckled splotches of minor surface oxidation and minor age discoloration. Blade with some small areas of more serious oxidation as well, most obviously around the ricasso. Hilt very good to near fine with much of the gold gilt remaining, bone grip with wear, some discoloration and some minor chipping. Blade to hilt junction very tight with no obvious looseness or wobble.Condition
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