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The Infantry Officers’ Sword is American made and difficult to identify exactly. It has iron mountings and the length of the sword indicates that it was made under regulations of 1787-1813. Whether it was made as an officer’s or noncommissioned weapon will never be known. The workmanship indicates that it may have been for an officer. The blade is hand forged, but well done. The brass hilt of the sword has been silver plated with a considerable amount of silver still present. The silver mounting means that an infantryman carried it. The sword has a reverse ‘P’ knuckle-bow hilt, with a “pillow” shaped pommel, and there is a small circular hole on the hilt near the pommel with a ring. A semi-circular branch on the obverse side forms a counter-guard and the quillon terminates in a disc finial. The bone grips are four sided and fluted. The wide ferrule runs to the end of the blade. The blade is not engraved.
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