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These scabbards have straight black lacquered leather bodies with sheet brass mounts and average about 565 millimeters in length. Both throat and tip mounts are held to the leather with two small brass rivets on each side.
The short throat mount is 54 millimeters long and 44 millimeters wide. A large flat-domed brass frog stud is brazed to the throat mount.
The tip is flat-nosed with the cap brazed to the end of the tip mount body. It is 89 millimeters long and 38 millimeters wide. Some tips, though of the same overall measurements, have a broader flat surface with a much thicker end cap.
A steel retaining clip is brazed to the inter rim of the open throat to better grip the blade.
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This scabbard was made for the US Model 1847 Sappers Musketoon bayonet. The Musketoon bayonet was made by the Ames Manufacturing Company and the scabbard, most probably, was as well. Some were made in 1847 and other in 1855 as the contracts for the Musketoon were completed. The numbers made were small and the mortality rates were high making this scabbard a rare fine.
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