December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Overall length: 35.5 inches; blade length 29.5 inches and a width of 1.25 inches at the ricasso. A fine, silver-hilted, mounted officer’s saber with eagle-head pommel in the Philadelphia style with stirrup-hilt guard, backstrap and eagle-head pommel of silver; grip of rosewood with silver ribbon wraps; and a slightly curved blade free of decoration. It retains its original, tooled leather scabbard with silver mounts, consisting of throat, middle-band and chape or drag. Provenance: Collection of William Guthman, Westport, Connecticut and previously, the Robert H. McCauley Collection and earlier, the Medicus Collection. Literature: Flayderman and Mowbray, “American Swords from the Medicus Collection” p. 246.