More on CW Swords

Well, the 1850-pattern Horstmann Staff & Field Officer's sword sold.

Now if we can just get that McElroy to move. Albaugh did not illustrate it in his 1960 "Confederate Edged Weapons," but he does describe a similar model:

"A particularly handsome cavalry sabre is in private collection. In appearance it is very much like those made by Thomas, Griswold & Co., with ornamented branches and guard. The blade is finely etched, its decorations include the firm’s name, address, floral designs and “C.S.” The scabbard is of brass, engraved with crossed Confederate flags, etc."

The only difference is the scabbard on Old Truck's McElroy is steel (albeit with a brass soldered lap seam). I wonder if the sword Albaugh saw actually had an all-brass scabbard or it was just brass soldered and Albaugh made a mistake when he wrote the book? Doesn't really matter either way- many Confederate manufacturers used whatever materials they had. If they had steel, they used steel. If steel was in short supply they used as much brass as they could get away with.