CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE COLLEGE HILL ARSENAL FOOT OFFICER SWORD PUBLISHED FROM KEVIN HOFFMAN COLLECTION
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Category: Edged Weapons Pre 1900 - Collectibles - Civil War

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Seller: Rachele Mandell Gallery
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PRESERVING AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HISTORY, CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE PUBLISHED COLLEGE HILL ARSENAL FOOT/STAFF OFFICER SWORD NASHVILLE TENNESSEE. THIS ONE IS VERY RARE, IT HAS A SHARK SKIN GRIP, ONLY A FEW WERE CUSTOM MADE THIS WAY. COMES WITH ORIGINAL LEATHER SCABBARD IN POOR CONDITION. FROM THE MUSEUM LIKE COLLECTION OF AUTHOR AND CIVIL WAR GURU KEVIN HOFFMAN, THIS IS THE ONE PUBLISHED IN HIS BOOK SEE PHOTOS.
College Hill Nashville Foot Officer rare style
College hill to my knowledge is only one of three firms to occasionally use sharkskin grip wrap.


Manufactured: Nashville, TN  Maker: College Hill Arsenal  Year: Civil War  Model: Foot Officer 
Size: 30 inch blade, 1.16 wide, .304 thick  Condition: VG 
The guard has two short branches connecting at the base of the knuckle bow. The pommel has an extended protrusion to which the knuckle bow is pinned with two copper pins. The mushroom shaped pommel has two steps with the pien setting way back, totally off center. The blade is unmarked with an unstopped fuller starting .25 inch from the guard and running 23 inches, a clipped edge where the blade cutting edge meets the ricasso area. Very fine, loosely twisted brass wire. 
 

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