Collection Highlights
Edwin Booth as Hamlet
Date:
1870-1879
Object Number:
PR.104.3
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sword and scabbard
Object Number:
1951.383a-d
Date:
1850-1870
Medium:
Steel, brass, fish skin; leather, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 35 3/8 x 5 x 2 5/8 in. ( 89.9 x 12.7 x 6.7 cm )
Marks:
stamped: on base of quillon: "E.L." and three stars inside oval frame
incised: on back of blade: indecipherable script
Description:
Sword with straight, single-edged steel blade with wide fuller running down center and narrow fuller adjacent to blunt edge; brass counter-guard with two branches on obverse side that meet at mid-point of knuckle bow, and quillon with ball finial with molded floral decoration; grip covered in fish skin and wrapped with wire; brass, Phrygian helmet-shaped pommel with leaf border; leather scabbard (now is three pieces, b-d) with brass mounts, including shield-shaped frog stud and drag.
Credit Line:
Gift of the 7th Regiment, National Guard New York, through Major Kenneth Miller
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
