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- C.S.A. Arms Factory, Loius Froelich Enlisted Men’s Cavalry Sword
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- Confederate Enlisted Men’s Cavalry Sword
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- Kenansville Cavalry Sword
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- Enlisted Men’s Cavalry, 2nd Model Kenansville Sword
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- Kenansville Sword Roman Numeral, XXVIIII
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- Kenansville Sword Pommel & Grip
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- Kenansville Sword Backstrape, 2nd Model
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- Confederate Kenansville Sword, Hand Guard
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- Kenansville 1st Model Scabbard Ring Mount
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- Kenansville Scabbard Ring Mount
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- Kenansville Cavalry Sword & Copper Scabbard
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- Kenansville 1st Model Scabbard Throat
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- Confederate Copper Scabbard & Soldered Seam
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- Kenansville Scabbard Drag Plate, 1st Model
Most Kenansville Cavalry Swords are marked with Roman numerals on the edge of the knucklebow (this example is marked with RN # XXVIIII or 29) and most scabbards are marked with a Matching RN # on the top of the throat (this example is not) leaving one to believe that this scabbard is not original to the sword. I’m also told by the experts that this scabbard is an earlier version, considered to be the 1st Model scabbard. So maybe, just maybe they made the sword at the factory and they had a 1st Model scabbard lying around which just happen to fit the sword……don’t really know, because I wasn’t there…..one things for sure it’s a really neat sword and scabbard.
The blade on this sword has some pitting and is very dark but is not damaged in any way and the brass guard has great color, color that takes 150 plus years to create. The grip has been rewrapped at one time or another, which is a bummer but there’s worse things in life.
The Scabbard is just about as pretty as it gets (my opinion) when it comes to Confederate Scabbards. The 150 year old copper color is just over the top and its crude soldering on the back just reeks of the Confederacy, and I say that in a loving way…..you can see traces of red paint throughout suggesting that it was originally painted. This is not unusual for Confederate Scabbards to be painted either red or black.
If you have any questions about this sword and scabbard or any of the other weapons in my arsenal feel free to ask, if you have any Confederate Weapons you’d like to sell let me know maybe we can work out a deal. Contact me at civilwararsenal@yahoo.com attn Gene West….thanks for stopping by the Civil War Arsenal.
Very interesting sword… I own its brother only mine is a type 2 sword in a copper type 2 scabbard identical in every way to the usually seen scabbard in iron. It has the pinned type 2 scabbard throat, but is missing the tip, and has no traces of red or brown paint which is very common on them. Just like yours, the throat has no assembly number and has a beautiful untouched patina lots of file marks on the seams. The sword is is marked XXII or 22, the pommel cap has a large casting defect in it, and the blade is a bit more narrow then seen usually. I’ve never seen another until I stumbled upon yours on the internet. I have no clue why they were made, but I do feel they are original to the swords and really makes it stand out…I can send you some pics if you would like…
Hi Danny, it would be great if you could provide images of your sword and scabbard…..especially the scabbard……I wonder it these were made from copper melted down from period “Large Cents” of the time…..my combination Sword and scabbard is extremely heavy in relation to other sword and scabbards I own…..I assuming yours is too.
I have seen other copper and brass scabbards, there obviously rare but never the less they do exist….a lack of resources would be just one of the reasons why the South would use these metals….could have been the foundry had that metal laying around at the time, certainly they would be made early War.
Pics would be appreciated…..
Regards Gene West