
CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE OFFICER J C WILSON HOUSTON TEXAS SWORD 5 KNOWN HOFFMAN COL
PRESERVENG HISTORY, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE MOUNTED FOOT OFFICER TEXAS J C WILSON HOUSTON TEXAS SWORD FROM THE COLLECTION OF AUTHOR KEVIN HOFFMAN ONLY 5 KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THIS MOUNTED FOOT OFFICER SWORD IN EXISTANCE. DECORATED BLADE ON BOTH SIDES ETCHING IS FAINT EXTREMELY RARE SWORD AND RARE TEXAS MAKER. THIS IS A MUST HAVE FOR THE SEASONED CONFEDERATE COLLECTOR. KEVIN PAID $20,000 FOR THIS SWORD IN 1998 ONE SOLD FOR $93,750 NOVEMBER 2019 IT HAD THE CS ON THE GUARDWHEN YOU BUY THE BEST YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO MAKE EXCUSES LATER. J.C. Wilson was in the Confederate sword manufacturing business in 1862 and is listed in the Tr-Weekly Telegraph (Houston) on September 3, 1862 as being in the process of selling his sword manufacturing equipment and stock at J.C. Wilson, Main Street (Directory of American Military Goods Dealers, Bazelon & McGuinn, Page 532, Volume 2). He is unquestionably one of the very early war Confederate sword makers whose specimens are extremely scarce and