4221 RARE CONFEDERATE COLLEGE HILL FOOT OFFICER'S

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[?]Live Online Auction Starts In 2025 May 11 @ 10:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Category Firearms & Military
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Start Price 2,000.00 USD
Estimated at 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD
SWORD. Very few of these very distinctive College Hill, Nashville, TN officer swords are known. Distinguishing characteristics are the 29.5" "penknife" style ricasso blade. College Hill etch is always found enclosed in the fuller which this example is etched almost total length of blade including a furled Confederate flag and feathered script "CSA". The distinctive College Hill hilt has knucklebow entering bottom of the plain undecorated pommel. The original accompanying College Hill scabbard has its characteristic angled throat with band near base. UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: letter of authenticity from Museum of our Southern Heritage, Feb. 11, 2005. Copy of pages from Albaugh's "Photographic Supplement to Confederate Swords" concerning this manufacturer. CONDITION: very good overall, blade is gray, staining, pitting at point, etching mostly well discerned. The grip is fine retaining all of its original leather with twisted brass wire wrap. Scabbard is dry, crazed, dyed black over scuffing, drag is replacement. PROVENANCE: Lifelong collection of Richard A. Baumann. (02-23349/JS). NON-GUN. $4,000-7,000.