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Auction archive: Lot number 14

Early USMC Musician's Brass Eagle Hilt Sword

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,560
Auction archive: Lot number 14

Early USMC Musician's Brass Eagle Hilt Sword

Estimate
n. a.
Price realised:
US$1,560
Beschreibung:

28 in. engraved blade. These ca 1820s-1830s solid brass-hilted eagle pommel swords were unidentified for many years until Norm Flayderman turned up sketches of swords in the work books of the Widmann Sword Factory in Philadelphia. The books were brought by a workman of Widmann’s to the Horstmann Company after Widmann’s death in 1848, when Horstmann incorporated the Widmann operation into his own. Provenance: Property of N. Flayderman & Co. Condition: Good.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
11 Mar 2017
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

28 in. engraved blade. These ca 1820s-1830s solid brass-hilted eagle pommel swords were unidentified for many years until Norm Flayderman turned up sketches of swords in the work books of the Widmann Sword Factory in Philadelphia. The books were brought by a workman of Widmann’s to the Horstmann Company after Widmann’s death in 1848, when Horstmann incorporated the Widmann operation into his own. Provenance: Property of N. Flayderman & Co. Condition: Good.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
11 Mar 2017
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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