Edged Wpns Warnock & Co?

[bayonet]

Anyone have any info on this Company out of New York, Warnock & Co? It's on my 1850 Field Sword

 

[steamboater]

Warnock & Co (Warnock Uniform Company) established in 1838, out of business around 1947. They listed mostly caps and uniforms, no mention of weapons. This from "Directory of American Military Goods Dealers & Makers", combined edition. They probably imported your sword from Solingen, Germany.

 

[UCVRelics]

In order to date it, which I believe its post war, what are the other etchings on the blade?

 

[bayonet]

Ok here are the blade markings. Why would anyone make a 1850 field sword after the war was over. Does not seem profitable and with the market flooded.

 

[UCVRelics]

From the etching I have to stand corrected, as with the Stand By The Union I believe it is indeed a CW period sword. On the market being flooded, Officers had to buy their own swords and pistols so its not like there was a flood of them on the market as with swords that were contracted by the government. Nice piece.

 

[Richard E. Schenk]

I have not seen anything like this etch design before. The treatment of the arrows and olive sprigs in the eagle's talons is really unique. I wonder who made it?

 

[UCVRelics]

I have not seen anything like this etch design before. The treatment of the arrows and olive sprigs in the eagle's talons is really unique. I wonder who made it?

Me too. At first from just the Warnock marking I thought post war as you don't see many Warnock's, so when I got him to post the rest the etching, it screams CW period. Ive seen that nightcap logo on some CW tokens.

 

[bayonet]

Oh there is more. Check out the top of the blade, it has that pointed leaf design. It travels half way down the top of the blade. I have a Collins & Horstmann 1850s and they do not have that on top of the blade.

 

[Richard E. Schenk]

The French often etch the spine of their blades with such leaf designs. I have a Horstmann French Mle 1821 Infantry officer-style sword made for the American market with such marking of the spine. (Of course. so do same German blades. This, however, closely resembled my Mle1821.)