All Original Civil War 1864 Ames MFG Sword & Scabbard

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Beautiful unmessed with all-original 1864 Light Cavalry Civil War sword made by the famous Ames company. My husband has had thissword in his collection for several years. Three-arm brass hand guard has beautiful aged brass patina, and pommel cap is lightly marked âeoe?Wâe or "?M". Straight blade (beautiful and clean) measures 34 1/2 inches and comes to a blunt point. Still sharp, but no sharpening marks, blade is a wonderful clean silver with nice mixed gray patina unrusted, unpitted, and only two very tiny edge nicks. Base of the blade still shows original leather bumper and blade is well-marked US/CEW/1864 with the one being a little light. On the other side, AMES/MFgCOo in the arch stamp with half the Chicopee line still visible. I showed a picture of the pommel cap which is lightly marked and that the sword has obviously not been taken apart. Grip retains about 70% of the original leather, is worn down to the original wood in several places, and still retains all of the original grip wire. Both are tight and secure without wiggle. Scabbard has dark brown/black unrusted fairly-even patina with two hangers with rings, throat, and drag and does not have the screw near the throat which is often seen in import scabbards. Scabbard has two minor dents and shows old, but stable, pit marks more so towards the drag but has remained in read more

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