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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.
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 and the opening is in the shape of a blade.
The tip finial, an oval brass cap that is almost flat, is brazed over the end of the tip mount body.
The throat mounts are 67 mm long and 40 mm wide. The tip mount is 84 mm long and 30 mm wide. The overall length is approximately 570 mm long.
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Speculation and questions
This variation is frequently found on the US Model 1841 New Hampshire Alteration. It is very similar to Variation A but is a little smaller overall, the throat mount is a little longer, the tip finial is a bit flatter and they are not interchangeable. The fact that the New Hampshire Alteration bayonet is believed to be produced by Collins, makes it harder to call this an Ames produced scabbard. They were probably made in the early 1860's in small numbers. 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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