Does anyone recognize this short sword?

[Wraith_3]

My dad got this short sword with some other CW items that were supposedly carried by a soldier from the family who was selling them. He was always suspect of it, which I am as well, because the blade looks welded or brazed onto the hilt. I've been wrong before though so does anyone recognize this sword, and if so is it CW or something else?

 

[UCVRelics]

Interesting piece. The brazing suspect and is not CW period. Sheffield makers have been make blade for a LONG time. It is not a CW knife I have seen before that was used during the CW. What is the length?

 

[Championhilz]

My dad got this short sword with some other CW items that were supposedly carried by a soldier from the family who was selling them. He was always suspect of it, which I am as well, because the blade looks welded or brazed onto the hilt. I've been wrong before though so does anyone recognize this sword, and if so is it CW or something else?

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Generally you don't see country of origin markings on items until after 1891, when the U.S. Tariff Law of 1890 was passed which required such markings on goods entering the United States from abroad.

 

[Wraith_3]

Interesting piece. The brazing suspect and is not CW period. Sheffield makers have been make blade for a LONG time. It is not a CW knife I have seen before that was used during the CW. What is the length?

It's 23 3/8" overall. The brazing is exactly why I ruled CW out, but I've been known to be wrong. lol

 

[Old Soldier]

When the blade has Sheffield on the blade like that, it was usually for a knife, cleaver or billhook. Anything like a military sword or knife would have it on the ricasso/hilt . The blade seems rather flat and are not the wedge-shape associated with industrial knives. A cleaver would have been shorter and wider which leaves us with an agricultural implement like a long billhook or machete. These are not compound edged like knives or chisels. Here is one I found for sale online:

See the similarity?

BTW - no self-respecting Sheffield maker would allow brazing like that to leave the factory!

 

[Wraith_3]

Yeah so I'm guessing this is a home special that someone made themselves. I don't think it would have been useful for anything because I'm not sure how that brazing would hold up if you hit anything with it.

 

[Gillam&Miller]

Since it has England stamped into the blade that would put it post civil war

 

[Old Soldier]

Since it has England stamped into the blade that would put it post civil war

Not necessarily. It is NOT an issue or military implement and does not therefore, follow the usual rules. By 1860, the UK manufacturers were putting their names and locations on commercial blades, mainly due to the Great Exhibition of 1851 which advertised Britain's goods to the world. This was especially true of the 'Sheffield' stamp which was the primary source of edged tools, and later became THE source of stainless steel items.

This one is not 'as made', THAT is for sure.