1074. French infantry hanger sword with scabbard, 1800s (model 1808). 1195 grams, 30” long. Bright clean steel blade with no
nicks or pitting, top part at point end honed thin, the ricasso stamped with simple CA, D-shaped hilt with ribbed grip in aged brass, the black leather scabbard with brass fittings intact but worn. With certificate. Estimate: $300-$450.
1075. French naval boarding sword, dated 1846, with anchor and maker marks (model 1833). 1000 grams, 32” long. With
characteristic slightly curved blade (falchion blade), single wide fuller (often mistakenly called a “blood groove”) on each side, and distinctively closed steel cup-hilt, this piece was designed to be intentionally shorter than a cavalry sword, for use in the tight quarters of a ship, a model known to have been used by the Confederate Navy during Civil War. The steel blade is only lightly aged but definitely well used as manifest by a series of small nicks (the anchor markings near the ricasso also somewhat faint), and the hilt and handle are dark with very light surface rust only, with two-letter (indecipherable) inspection stamp below a small anchor stamped on the guard. The spine (top) of the blade shows a faint but elegant script that says “MANUFre Rle de CHATELLERAULT Juine 1846” (Royal Manufacturer, Chatellerault, June 1846). Estimate: $400-$600.
1076. French naval dirk (three-sided dagger) with anchor mark, 1840s, replacement scabbard. 170 grams, 12’ long. Very clean and undamaged blade (still very sharp) with bright brass quillion showing anchor proofmarks at each end, simple wooden grip with screwedon brass loop at end, black leather scabbard with brass tip (old but not original to this piece). Estimate: $500-$750.
1077. Pair of British naval rigging knives, mid-1800s, manufactured in Sheffield, England (marked). 150 grams total, 7-1/2” to 8-1/4” long. Very sharp, short, curved, blunt-point knifes with simple, two-piece wooden handles, one blade marked with WM BERNHARD
& CO / SHEFFIELD and the other marked with 100A / MADE IN SHEFFIELD / Y, the blades used but clean, with some old patina. Estimate: $100-$150.
1078. Civil War-era U.S. naval brass-hilt boarding cutlass (model 1860), manufacturer Ames (Massachusetts), dated 1862.
883 grams, 32” long. Clean steel blade with no nicks or pitting (just some faint surface rust), stamped with AMES MFG CO. / CHICOPEE /
MASS on the ricasso, clean brass hilt around tight leather grip (intact but slightly chipped), well preserved overall. With certificate. Estimate: $400-$600.
1079. Civil War-era U.S. cavalry sword, manufacturer Ames (Massachusetts), dated 1863, with original scabbard. 1580 grams, 42” long. Intact blade with only minor nicks from use and small patches of corrosion, marked AMES MFG. / CHICOPEE / MASS on the ricasso, bright brass hilt with a few nicks (again, from use), wire-wrapped leather grip, clean steel scabbard with two suspension rings. Estimate: $600-$900.
1080. Spanish-American War brass-hilt sword dated 1898, made in Toledo, Spain. 1094 grams, 33” long. Bright steel blade with deeply stamped marking ARTA FABA [Artilleria Fabrica] DE TOLEDO 1898, fairly clean but a couple areas of surface rusting, the simple, Dshaped, rib-gripped brass hilt a French model-1808 design (see lot 1074) and nicely aged without damage. With certificate. Estimate: $200-$300.
1081. French felling axe (executioner’s axe), 1700s. 2540 grams, 33” long, the head 11” x 8”. Distinctively long blade (basically a treecutter’s
tool but also used for beheading), with pitted but stable and solid surface, aged (but not original) wooden handle. With certificate. Estimate: $350-$500.
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