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AMES M1850 FOOT OFFICER’S SWORD IDENTIFIED TO CAPT. SAMUEL HUBBARD, 15TH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY

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This original Model 1850 Foot Officer’s sword by Ames comes with the original brass throat portion from its leather scabbard.

This sword measures 36.5” overall, with a 30.5” steel blade. Blade, with its semi-rounded back, is embellished via the acid etching process on both sides and features both ornate military motifs and floral designs. Features a “US” on one side and an Eagle with pennant and E. Pluribus Unum on the other. Nothing of the thin red washer remains. Ricasso has a very well-worn Ames name in script etching. The blade wears an attractive dark gray, almost black patina.

Sword has a detailed, cutout brass hilt with the guard and knuckle bow cast in one piece. The brass hilt features cutout foliate and ornate quillon. Covering the wood handle is gray sharkskin in good, tight condition with just normal slight scuffing in spots. Seam slightly separated. Double twisted brass wire is wrapped tightly about the grooves in the handle. Brass pommel cap has a cast floral pattern border. Grip and knuckle bow remains tight to the blade.

The brass throat is all that remains of this sword’s leather scabbard. The ring mount is in place and there is a short length of old twisted cord attached to that. I would suspect this was cord was to keep the two pieces together all these years. The throat is stamped “AMES MFG. CO. / CHICOPEE / MASS” on one side. The opposite side is finely engraved, “Capt. Sam’l Hubbard / from the / ex-members & friends of the / National Blues / Aug. 20th 1862.” The mellow brass patina on the throat perfectly matches that on the sword handle.

The 15^th Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven August 25, 1862. Left State for Washington, D. C., August 28 and was there to December. Part of the 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1863, then the 7th Army Corps, Department of Virginia, to July, 1863. Following that they served in the Carolinas. Samuel Hubbard enlisted on July 21, 1862 and was soon commissioned as a Captain in Company D, of the 15^th. There is very little information to be found about him. He left the service in late 1864 or early 1865.

This is a fine, original, Model 1850 Foot Officer’s sword with nice engraved presentation on all that remains of the scabbard; the brass throat.   [jet] [ph:L]

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