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Confederate Sword (Kenansville Arsenal?)

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Confederate Sword (Kenansville Arsenal?)
Confederate Sword (Kenansville Arsenal?)<p>with matching heavy leather scabbard. Hilt of crudely cast brass, with three-branched knucklebow, flattend leather grip topped by a simple brass pommel cap. Blade slightly curved with a stopped 3/4 fuller. The polished leather scabbard with brass mounts, at least one of which appears to be a reworked pulley housing. The top mount extremely poorly cast, and with a crudely incised "LDL" or "IDL" faintly visible. This sword -- but not the scabbard -- bears many similarities to those manufactured at The Confederate States Armory at Kenansville, North Carolina, which despite its official sound name, was actually a private enterprise.<p>Sword lacking wire wrap around grip, tip with tiny nick. Scabbard missing portions of its original surface, but quite sound.