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The steel body of this scabbard is curved to the shape of the blade it serviced. It is brazed together along the bottom edge of the scabbard.
The frog stud is a 17 millimeter domed steel stud, brazed to the right side of the scabbard body. The throat piece is held to the scabbard body with a single steel rivet on the front edge of the body under the throat rim.
The tip finial is a round steel ball brazed to the end of the scabbard body.
The width of the scabbard at the throat is 36 millimeters and the overall length is 550 millimeters long.
This example of the scabbard is stamped with the number 7 on the throat piece.
Note! It appears that someone tried to strengthen the throat piece by crudely soldering it to the body on this example. Most likely post manufacturing.
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Speculation and questions
This scabbard is typically found on what is believed to be Ames Manufacturing Company produced bayonets. Such as the feathered gripped Remington Rolling Block Bayonet and the Winchester Model 1876 Hawaiian Citizen Guards Bayonet. It is unknown if Ames actually made the scabbard but its relationship to more than one type of bayonet produced by Ames, leads one to believe it may be. The number produced is unknown but it is certainly rarer than the brass mounted leather bayonets also found on post war Ames bayonets.
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