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Glen A Cleeton wrote: |
Hi Jean
The GAR swords of this form are all post American Civil War. http://suvcw.org/gar.htm Cheers GC |
Jean Thibodeau wrote: | ||
Ah, then the person giving me the information at the time was wrong about it being pre-Civil War, but the dates of service on the sword where earlier than the Civil war or overlapped with the early years of the war: Maybe the date where 1850 something to maybe 1862 or later .... memory, and not having the sword is sort of " fallible " ! I imagine then that my sword may have been presented to the person years or decades later than the years of service engraved on the blade ? |
Michael Harley wrote: |
Wouldn't this more likely come from the signal corp. rather than the medical corp. as it has the emblem of the rod of Hermes/Mercury, the messenger of the Gods rather than the rod of Asklepius, the God of healing? |
Craig Johnson wrote: |
This is a dress sword for a medical Officer probably late 19th C. I do not have my book to hand but I would think this is pretty accurate.
Best Craig |