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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 leather side of both the throat and tip mounts have straight edges that are perpendicular to the leather body. The overall length is approximately 533 mm long.
Dorlin Kerr Collection
There is a 16 mm domed brass frog stud brazed to the right side of the throat mount. A brass plate with a rectangular blade opening appears to have been brazed to the throat mount. The throat mount is 68 mm long and 34 mm wide.
Dorlin Kerr Collection
The tip mount is 76 mm long and 28 mm wide at the leather side, which then tapers to a narrow closed end of the tip mount. There is no finial cap.
Dorlin Kerr Collection
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Speculation and questions
This variation is very similar to Variation B other than the shape of the blade opening and the lack of a tip mount finial. The only observed example was found on a very rare version of the Winchester M1873 Type 2 bayonet (Example Reference #5042) and is believed to be original to that bayonet. The period of production is most likely post war (1870 to 1890) and possibly made in Europe.
The number produced is unknown but based on surviving examples it was probably a small number.
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