1st item – Japanese officers sword and scabbard, WWII era. Bronze pommel, ray skin grip wrapped in black silk threads, tsuba with five petal flowers at each corner, wooden black painted scabbard with bronze mounts, blade has unsigned tang but two holes. Red and brown silk knot tassel corresponds to the colors for Japanese Army […]

Two Civil War Model 1860 swords with scabbards. 1st item – U.S. Civil War Model 1860 sword, blade stamped "C. Roby, Chelmsford, Mass" and dated 1864 with inspector's stamp "AGM" verso. 41" total length, 42 1/2" length w/ metal scabbard. 2nd item – U.S. Civil War Model 1860 sword, blade stamped "Mansfield & Lamb Forestdale […]

U.S. Colt 3rd Model 1851 revolver .36 caliber, iron back strap and trigger guard, octagon barrel, serial number 91489 corresponds to manufacture year of 1859. US marked frame, all visible serial numbers matching. Barrel stamped, "Address Col. Sam Colt Hartford". 7 1/2" barrel length. Condition: Even brown patina, light pitting of barrel near cylinder and […]

Manhattan Navy Revolver Series III, .36 cal, brass back strap and trigger guard, 5 shot with octagonal barrel stamped “Manhattan Fire Arms Co. Newark NJ” with matching serial numbers 42549 on back strap, trigger guard, and barrel. 6 1/2″ barrel length. Condition: Not in operating condition, one of the backstrap screws and block not properly […]

Kentucky tiger maple full stock percussion rifle with eagle patchbox and powder horn, Middle Tennessee history. 1st item – Percussion long rifle with tiger maple full stock, .44 caliber, octagonal barrel, lockplate with foliate designs marked "Leman Lancaster PA", brass fittings and patchbox. Patchbox with the pierced finial profile of a Federal eagle with outstretched […]

Hopkins & Allen XL No. 4 NY rimfire pocket pistol, .38 cal, 5 shot, octagonal barrel, ivory grips. Flat above cylinder marked, “XL No4 NY”. Cylinder marked with serial number 601. Barrel 2 1/2″L. Third quarter of 19th century. 2nd item – D. H. Torrington Connecticut gun powder measure, wooden handle. 5 1/2″ L. Condition: […]

Percussion full stock rifle by Leman, .42 caliber, octagonal barrel marked, "Leman Lancaster PA Warranted", unmarked lockplate, brass fittings and patchbox. Full length cherry stock. Ramrod holder with brass bands, double set triggers. 47 3/4" barrel length. Second quarter of the 19th century. 2nd item – Powder horn with wooden plug secured by nail braids, […]

Civil and Spanish American War era CDVs and Spanish American War era photograph albums. 1st grouping – Grouping of Naval Academy CDVs from the Civil War era including images of a uniformed midshipman – verso in pencil "Perkins", another midshipman in uniform – verso "My roommate Finley – committed suicide", two midshipmen in uniform, verso […]

Percussion Rifle by H. Pratt, .58 caliber, octagonal barrel with brass front and steel notched rear sights. Barrel marked in script, "H. Pratt" (Henry Pratt of Roxbury and Boston, Massachusetts 1790-1880, working 1832-1880). Foliate engraved lockplate marked, "R Ashmore Warranted". Brass fittings and patchbox, with patchbox cover stamped with the number "18". Incised initials, 'E. […]

USS Connecticut Spanish American War / Great White Fleet commemorative items relating to John Addison Baxter Smith (1843-1918), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and his son, John Baxter Smith, U.S. Navy Paymaster. Addison Baxter SmithÃs early career included serving blockade duty on the USS Housatonic during the blockade of Charleston in the Civil War. He survived […]