UNTOUCHED C.R. KIRSCHBAUM US IMPORT M1840 CAVALRY SABER WITH KNIGHT’S HEAD MARK

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For details on this company and these sabers see Thillmann, Civil War Cavalry and Artillery Sabers pp.349ff. The M1840 pattern, the so-called heavy cavalry saber to distinguish it from the lighter M1857 (aka M1860,) was made and imported into the US beginning in 1839 and was carried throughout the war by both sides. This one bears the knight’s head maker’s mark of C.R. Kirschbaum of Solingen on the reverse ricasso, which Thillmann notes is the hardest to find of the three Kirschbaum Civil War era marks and dates it, “from just prior to and through the U.S. Civil War.”

The brass hilt is the standard configuration and has an untouched, aged patina, with no bends or breaks. The peening of the blade tang on the pommel cap is not messed with. The guard has the standard knucklebow and side branches in place and the counterguard shows the slightly pointed top of the quillon characteristic of this company’s M1840s. The grip is fair, showing wear to the thin black leather wrap, exposing some of the wood core and underlying cord binding, with the upper four turns of the twisted brass wire in place under the pommel cap and a short strand near the guard. The blade is full length with good edge and point, and standard configuration with wide central fuller and shorter narrow fuller running under the flat back edge. The blade is smooth metal, showing mostly as muted steel gray mixed with darker gray areas and spots, but no pitting. The knight’s head mark is sharp and distinct. The iron scabbard is the standard configuration as well, with drag and carrying rings in place, as is the screw-fastened throat, typical of import sabers. The scabbard shows as a dark brown near the top, more of a gray mixed with brown toward the bottom, has a few shallow dings on the sides near the drag with some slight crustiness near the drag and some shallow pitting on the upper carrying ring band and just below the throat.

This is all original, untouched, has a good, straight-out-of-the-attic look to it, and is one of the basic Civil War cavalry sabers to have in a collection.  [sr] [ph:L]

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