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A 'Marine Music Boy's' eagle pommel sword by W.H. Horstmann
Condition: Blade showing areas of pitting overall with considerable wear to engraving on one side. Hilt with dark age patina.
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Note: This style of eagle pommel sword produced by the Philadelphia firms of Widman and, later, Horstmann, have been traditionally labeled as militia swords. However, recent publication of a series of four drawings from the Horstmann archives, (in the Norman Flayderman Collection) depicting three swords with similar hilts and labeled 'Marine Sergeant's', 'Marine Musician's' and 'Marine Music Boy's', the fourth depicting the familiar mameluke-hilted Marine Corps officer's sword, points to a more likely attribution as designs intended for use by the United States Marine Corps.








