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18IZ-2 1850 OFFICERS CIVIL WAR SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:375.00 USD
18IZ-2 1850 OFFICERS CIVIL WAR SWORD
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Important Civil War Officer’s Model 1850 sword and brass mounted metal scabbard belonging to our consignor’s Great Grandfather Colonel Ellwood Kirby. The sword and scabbard are un-cleaned with a pleasingdark patina to the scabbard and decorated brass mounts; the blade is in very good + condition with majority of original polish and beautiful spread eagle and U.S. etched panels; the grip shows its wire-wrappedrayskin with the guard and pommel displaying a taffy colored patina that is also un-cleaned. Also accompanying this lot is an original CDV of Colonel Kirby, taken by H. C. Phillips, N.W. corner Ninth and ChestnutStreets, Philadelphia. According to the consignor, Kirby was born in 1830 in Shelltown, New Jersey into a Quaker farming family. At a young age, he emigrated to Missouri. He became a civil engineer with the railroads and served as a civil engineer, bridge builder and draftsman until the spring of 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War he was commissioned as a Major and Adjutant to Governor Hall and was in charge of a