Cavalry Officer's Saber, ca. 1793–95, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American, Philadelphia, Steel, silver, wood, textile, copper

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Cavalry Officer's Saber, ca. 1793–95, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American, Philadelphia, Steel, silver, wood, textile, copper, H. 41 in. ( cm); H. of blade 34 1/2 in. ( cm); W. 4 5/8 in. ( cm); D. 4 in. ( cm); Wt. 1 lb. oz. ( g), Swords, This saber is exceptional among eighteenth-century American silver-hilted examples for the fact that it is constructed with a basket-hilt. The design for the hilt is likely to have been derived from British prototypes as the knuckleguard with scrolled side-bars is related in conception to the hilts of some eighteenth-century British sabers, including a silver-hilted officer’s spadroon made in London ca

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