
CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE BOYLE & GAMBLE PUBLISHED FOOT OFFICER SWORD # 17 HOFFMAN
PRESERVING CIVIL WAR HISTORY, CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE BOYLE & GAMBLE PUBLISHED FOOT OFFICER SWORD # 17 ON POMMEL FROM THE MUSEUM LIKE COLLECTION OF AUTHOR, CIVIL WAR GURU KEVIN HOFFMAN. THIS ONE IS EXTREMELY RARE WITH ONLY A FEW EXAMPLES IN EXISTANCE. PUBLISHED IN HIS BOOK "SWORD OF HONOR & REGULATION" SEE PHOTO AND DESCRIPTION. Boyle Gamble N.C.O.sword, #17 on pommel Confederate N.C.O. sword by Boyle, Gamble - Richmond, VA Manufactured: Richmond, VA Maker: Boyle & Gamble Year: Civil War Model: N.C.O. Size: 26.5in blade, .8 wide, widens to .9 near the tip Condition: VG These NCO swords are quite scarce. There were very few companies in the south that even made them. This example by Boyle, Gamble has a small oval guard with only a knuckle bow leading up to the undecorated pommel. Pommel is marked with the number 17 - likely an assembly number. The guard has a recessed area on the underside with a two step border and foliate decoration on the top. The quillon is flat side