Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice example of an Ames Model 1832 Artillery Short sword, dated 1843. This design of foot artillery sword has a straight, heavy double-edged steel blade. There are two side-by-side fullers, starting just below the hilt. Then, after a space of 11/16", there is a single broad center fuller that extends toward the blade's spear shaped point. The overall blade length is approximately 19''.
The blade is stamped on the reverse, near the hilt:
U.S.
1843
On the obverse, near the hilt stamped under an American Eagle, is:
N. P. AMES
SPRINGFIELD
The hilt and cross guard are cast and partly machined brass. The grips have been molded in a scalloped eagle feather design. Three transverse iron rivets secure it to the tang of the blade. The pommel is decorated on each side with a heavily incised American eagle, with shield, holding arrows in his left talon and an olive branch in his right talon. The eagle's head faces towards its right. The straight cross quillons terminate in disk shaped finials.
Blade condition is nice, with the typical dark patina from overall staining. These were issued bright, so they would over time darken. The markings are still mostly clear. The edge has been sharpened, and the sword definitely appears to have seen service, as shown by the nicks in the edge.
This is a very nice example of a sword used before and during the U.S. Civil War.
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