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This scabbard was made with 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. Based on the number of Sharps M1859 bayonets that were ordered, I suspect at least 3 to 4 thousand of these scabbards would have been produced.
The leather body appears to have been contoured to the shape of the curved blades.
The frog stud is a 15 mm domed brass stud brazed to the right side of the throat mount. The throat edges are bent inwardly and the opening is in the shape of a blade.
The large tip finial is an oval domed brass cap, brazed over the end of the tip mount body.
The throat mounts have been found in 57 and 64 mm lengths and 40 mm in width. The tip mount is 84 mm long and 32 mm wide. The overall length is approximately 580 mm long.
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Speculation and questions
This variation is frequently found on the large bladed bayonets that Ames Manufacturing produced such as the Sharps M1859 bayonet. they are believed to have been made by Ames in the late 1850's to early 1860's. The leather is not as heavy and wide as that found in the US armory made Type 2 scabbards and the survival rate was low. Of those that have survived, bent, broken leather and missing rivets are more common than not.
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