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Any sword and knife experts here?
- Thread starter jayhop
- Start date
It sure looks like a sword guard to me, but I've flipped through several of the most promising books on American swords and haven't found this design yet. Reminds me of either a pre-Civil War militia sword or a fraternal sword style, but after my initial searching I feel like I've ruled out fraternal. I'll keep searching...
Might be that, or just a casting inclusion. Hard to say.
By the way, the roman numbers beneath the tang hole are for batch assembly -- the guard and blade would be fit together, then sent off for say plating of the guard, polishing and etching of the blade, and could then be matched back up when all of that was done.
Certainly could be, but I don't have all of those books!