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While not weapons as such, I wouldn’t want to get stuck or cut with one.
U.S. M-1902 Army Officers Sword
7 7/16” blade – 9 5/8” OAL = Approx 25% Scale.
The cord hilt knot & hanger chain are brass.
Handle is black enameled, the guard & scabbard are nickel plated, and the blade is chromed.
I have read differing accounts of what these were made for.
One version is they were souvenirs. (of what?)
Another is that they were toys. (Not Hardly!)
And other is they were made as sword Salesman’s Samples to hand out to prospective customers at Military Academy’s?
I tend to think the later might be closer to the truth, as they are relatively scarce on the market, and too finely made to have been sold in quanity as cheap souvenirs.
This one is almost jewelry like quality.
It would take a highly skilled cutlery company to make a working sword blade this small, long, and thin.
Someone like an experienced sword manufacture.
PS: Come to think of it, they would have made a "Killer" hat or hair pin for a newly commissioned officers young bride to wear to the graduation ball.
So maybe they were jewelry??
U.S. M-1892 Krag Bayonet
5 5/8” blade – 7 7/8” OAL = Approx 50% Scale.
This one is newer, and cheaper made.
Probably a letter opener.
But the locking button works.
But why did they pick a little known & obscure U.S. bayonet only in service during the Spanish American war to model it after I wonder??
Shown laying on real U.S. 1897 Krag Bayonet
Japanese Tanto
3 5/8” blade – 7 3/8” OAL
These were sold in 5¢ & 10¢ stores for .25¢ when I was a child in the 50’s.
This one is blade marked G.C.C.Q. Japan.
Probably intended as a letter opener, but it is quite sharp and would be dangerous in the wrong hands.
My smallest handmade knife
I got bored sometimes, O.K.!
¾” blade - 1 5/8” OAL
Ivory Micarta handle w/brass guard.
The other unfinished blade is ¾”, not including the tang.
The other junk surrounding them are brass running deer belt buckle, a brass antelope pommel insert, and a brass deer head paper weight I made.
rc
U.S. M-1902 Army Officers Sword
7 7/16” blade – 9 5/8” OAL = Approx 25% Scale.
The cord hilt knot & hanger chain are brass.
Handle is black enameled, the guard & scabbard are nickel plated, and the blade is chromed.
I have read differing accounts of what these were made for.
One version is they were souvenirs. (of what?)
Another is that they were toys. (Not Hardly!)
And other is they were made as sword Salesman’s Samples to hand out to prospective customers at Military Academy’s?
I tend to think the later might be closer to the truth, as they are relatively scarce on the market, and too finely made to have been sold in quanity as cheap souvenirs.
This one is almost jewelry like quality.
It would take a highly skilled cutlery company to make a working sword blade this small, long, and thin.
Someone like an experienced sword manufacture.
PS: Come to think of it, they would have made a "Killer" hat or hair pin for a newly commissioned officers young bride to wear to the graduation ball.
So maybe they were jewelry??
U.S. M-1892 Krag Bayonet
5 5/8” blade – 7 7/8” OAL = Approx 50% Scale.
This one is newer, and cheaper made.
Probably a letter opener.
But the locking button works.
But why did they pick a little known & obscure U.S. bayonet only in service during the Spanish American war to model it after I wonder??
Shown laying on real U.S. 1897 Krag Bayonet
Japanese Tanto
3 5/8” blade – 7 3/8” OAL
These were sold in 5¢ & 10¢ stores for .25¢ when I was a child in the 50’s.
This one is blade marked G.C.C.Q. Japan.
Probably intended as a letter opener, but it is quite sharp and would be dangerous in the wrong hands.
My smallest handmade knife
I got bored sometimes, O.K.!
¾” blade - 1 5/8” OAL
Ivory Micarta handle w/brass guard.
The other unfinished blade is ¾”, not including the tang.
The other junk surrounding them are brass running deer belt buckle, a brass antelope pommel insert, and a brass deer head paper weight I made.
rc
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