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EXCAVATED CONFEDERATE CAVALRY SABER

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If they gave out awards for crudely made cavalry sabers, this one would be in the running. The guard is simple flat iron, curving in a broad semicircle, with a simple hole in one end through which the blade tang passes and is capped by a tapering cone shaped cap, the end of the knucklebow extending slightly beyond its edge. On the other end, about the only sophisticated touch is that the knuckle bow widens slightly at the notch for the blade tang, and then extends to form a tall quillon that may have curved forward slightly, but now is bent slightly back, threatening to complete the line of guard by coming full circle.

The curved blade is flat, unfullered, and with no ricasso. The bend upward toward the tip is rather sudden, not quite a crook, but almost there, likely a sign of the inexperience of the smith called upon to produce it in forging sword blades. That might also explain the oddity of the base of the blade where it looks like he realized the tang might be too narrow and long to support the width of the blade (and was positioned too high, something pointing to a smith used to making daggers or chopping knives.) In any case, he seems to have decided to shorten the tang and grip and lengthen the blade by adding a piece of metal to join the lower edge of the blade to face of the guard/knucklebow, with that piece eventually cracking and giving way. We would have thought the easiest way would be to shorten the tang from the pommel, but perhaps he wanted to keep the overall length. In any case, it’s the best guess we have drawn from the fishbowl full of submitted written guesses we have sitting on the counter. Overall the sword is in good, excavated condition, with the tip slightly rounded and both blade and guard showing shallowing pitting overall and a brown tone.    [sr] [ph:L]

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