ned info on m1860 staff and field officer sword

[confederate83]

Picked this dude up from a guy hard up for cash blade is acid etched has a US on it mfg name is bent and bush Boston no mass on the end grip is ray skin I think trying to date it

 

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[Red James Cash]

I think Bent and Bush was an importer,not a manufacturer.

 

[NHBandit]

I have one myself that I bought several years ago thinking it was Civil War era. Mine has the name of a Boston seller as well but not the same as yours. The real story is that they were made for many many years mostly after the war and by several different makers. I believe that many were purchased privately by veterns or awarded by veterans organizations. The markings are more likely those of the store that sold it than who made it. Alot of them were imported as well. Does yours have the scabbard ? Mine didn't. Here's mine in my coffee table/display case along with some of my Civil War collection. Value, a couple hundred bucks or so.

 

[confederate83]

I have one myself that I bought several years ago thinking it was Civil War era. Mine has the name of a Boston seller as well but not the same as yours. The real story is that they were made for many many years mostly after the war and by several different makers. I believe that many were purchased privately by veterns or awarded by veterans organizations. The markings are more likely those of the store that sold it than who made it. Alot of them were imported as well. Does yours have the scabbard ? Mine didn't. Here's mine in my coffee table/display case along with some of my Civil War collection. Value, a couple hundred bucks or so.

No scabbard gave the dude a hundred bucks for it but what I have found on the inter web says bent and bush was a well known supplier to the us army but doesn't say exactly when

 

[NHBandit]

No scabbard gave the dude a hundred bucks for it but what I have found on the inter web says bent and bush was a well known supplier to the us army but doesn't say exactly when

A hundred bucks is fine. You didn't get hurt. It's my understanding they were primarily a dress sword. Just looking at one you can tell it's not for fighting. Compare it to the Civil War cavalry saber in my display case and you'll see what I mean. What I've read is that they didn't become popular until the 1870s which puts them a bit after the war.

 

[confederate83]

A hundred bucks is fine. You didn't get hurt. It's my understanding they were primarily a dress sword. Just looking at one you can tell it's not for fighting. Compare it to the Civil War cavalry saber in my display case and you'll see what I mean.

Yeah I have a cavalry saber too what I read said that they were not made very sturdy because the ppl they were issued to were not gonna get close enough to have to use em makes sense to me

 

[NHBandit]

The thing is they weren't issued for military use. They were always intended to be dress swords. Just did a little more reading on them. What I found was that 99% were given as presentation swords to veterans on both sides after the war. From about 1870 up to around 1900. Maybe 1% were issued during the war and most of those were made by Ames in Chicopee Mass. Which brings back a childhood memory. I grew up in Chicopee and we used to find sword parts in the mud along the banks of the Chicopee river. Never thought about keeping any back then and the steel parts were really rusty. It was a factory town. Home to Savage Arms, the Ames sword factory, Stevens.. Up the road a bit in Springfield one of my first jobs was at Smith & Wesson.

 

[confederate83]

That's awesome