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David Hughes Collection
Information about this scabbard
These scabbards have straight black lacquered leather bodies with sheet brass mounts. Both throat and tip mounts are held to the leather with two small brass rivets on each side.
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.
The throat opening is in the shape of a double edged blade.
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Speculation and questions
This scabbard was made for the US Model 1841 Early Ames Alteration Bayonet and there is very little historical information available. The bayonet was made by the Ames Manufacturing Company and the scabbard, most probably, was as well. This scabbard was most probably made in the 1854 time period. The numbers made were very small and the mortality rates were high making this scabbard a rare fine.
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