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Model 1850 Foot Officer's Sword of Major (Colonel) P.P. Bixby - 6th NH Volunteers - POW at Second Bull Run, WIA at Petersburg, with Engraved Flask, CDV and Documentation Binder… 30.5" slightly curved single-edged spear point blade with 18.5" stopped median fuller, blade 1.1" wide at ricasso. Overall length 36.5" with a 6" hilt, a cast brass guard and a grooved wooden covered in leather with fourteen wraps of twisted wire. Blade unmarked as to maker or retailer, with simple etched decorations featuring flowing foliate motifs on both sides with a large US in the center of the reverse and a pat... |
