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Pattern 1822 Infantry Officer's sword
Picked up a bit of a project sword. It's an 1822 pattern Infantry Officer's sword in very nice shape. The blade has no nicks or rust blossoms and remnants of the blue still remain. The grip has no wire or shark skin loss and is still nice and tight with no wiggle or play. Since the design of the blade itself was changed to a Wilkinson pattern in 1845, this sword had to be made between 1822-1845. I haven't seen one in this kind of condition for a long time. The bad news is that there's no scabbard and that's probably a hard item to find. The brass guard had been pretty badly bashed about but on a good note, the brass is fairly malleable and with some wood blocks and clamps I'm in the process of gently tweaking out the worst of the damage. I'm about 50% done and by the time I'm finished it'll be about 90% back to rights. Nice, eh?