Photograph courtesy Wendy M. Welsh, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
1 posted on
01/17/2011 3:51:20 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Looks to me like the hilt of a display sword rather than a fighting sword.
3 posted on
01/17/2011 3:53:42 PM PST by
fso301
To: Constitution Day
5 posted on
01/17/2011 3:55:31 PM PST by
Tijeras_Slim
(Jubtabulously We Thrive!)
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6 posted on
01/17/2011 3:57:28 PM PST by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: SunkenCiv
Paging Eddie Teach.
9 posted on
01/17/2011 4:03:15 PM PST by
SkyPilot
To: SunkenCiv
Uhh, maybe it was left behind because the BLADE WAS BROKEN?
11 posted on
01/17/2011 4:04:53 PM PST by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: SunkenCiv
It appears to have had a chain handguard loop. It may have attached at that little hole on the hilt, and connected to another loop on the pommel. This was done on both naval cutlasses and cavalry sabers of the period as an alternative to the basket or full handguard hilt.
14 posted on
01/17/2011 4:10:07 PM PST by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: SunkenCiv
ARRrrrr... looks like a pig sticker handle to me
15 posted on
01/17/2011 4:10:34 PM PST by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: SunkenCiv
Looks like something I can’t think of...
19 posted on
01/17/2011 4:28:13 PM PST by
Monkey Face
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To: SunkenCiv
Looks like the hilt of a German-style hunting sword, which would be carried perhaps by boar hunters.
20 posted on
01/17/2011 4:36:34 PM PST by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: SunkenCiv
IIRC....Supposedly, Blackbeard removed the booty and sunk that ship. Maybe the sward was part of the booty that got left behind.
To: SunkenCiv
"Ye call that a sword? Now *this* be a sword!"
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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy. 31 posted on
01/17/2011 6:33:06 PM PST by
The Comedian
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