Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1856-1857
Object Number:
1857.11
Medium:
Oak
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Luce Center
Sword
Object Number:
1941.1162
Date:
1800-1830
Medium:
Steel, wood, leather
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 x 2 x 1 in. ( 66 x 5.1 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Sword with straight, double-edged steel blade (appears to have been ground and shortened); steel bird's head pommel with backstrap extending to ferrule at base of wooden grip; fragment of leather between blade and hilt.
Gallery Label:
This object is tentatively identified as a U.S.-made U.S. infantry sword in the accession records. Sources for this identification were "Nathan Starr, Arms Maker" (p. 59) and Smithsonian Institution Bulletin No. 163 (plate 4).
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
