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Information about this scabbard
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.
The leather body appears to have been contoured to the shape of the curved blades.
The frog stud is a 16 mm domed brass stud brazed to the right side of the throat mount. The throat edges are bent inwardly creating a slot for the bayonet 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 65 and 67 mm lengths and 40 mm in width. The tip mount is 83 mm long and 27 mm wide. The overall length is approximately 520 mm long.
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Speculation and questions
This variation is a smaller version of Variation A. They are frequently found on the small bladed bayonets that Ames Manufacturing produced for various rifles and they are believed to have been made by Ames in the 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.
The number produced is unknown but based on surviving examples it was probably a small number.
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