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Information about this scabbard
This Variation is made with straight black lacquered leather bodies with sheet brass mounts. Both throat and tip mounts are held to the leather with two large brass rivets on each side. The curved edges on the throat and tip mounts are exaggerated to almost a point, making it easy to separated them from the Type 4 scabbards.
The frog stud is a 18 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 rectangle, allowing the blade to be inserted in either direction.
The large tip finial, an oval domed brass cap, is brazed over the end of the tip mount body.
Some of the examples have a small letter S stamped on the side of the finial.
The throat mounts are 66 mm long and 38 mm wide. The tip mount is 82 mm long and 28 mm wide. The overall length is approximately 525 mm long.
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Speculation and questions
This scabbard was certainly produced for the US Model 1870 Navy Bayonet. It is known that 12,000 bayonets were delivered to the US Navy from 1870 to 1871 and it is assumed that the number of scabbards were similar in number. It is uncertain if it was produced for other bayonets but it is commonly found, correctly or not, on bayonets from pre-war to post war periods. Surviving examples show a lot of wear and tear, yet the numbers found are large. This implies that large numbers were produced and probably used on other types of bayonets produced by Ames during the period. It is believed that Ames produced these scabbards as well.
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