good afternoon how are you good all right you you came in and sold
me something before didn't you i did as a matter of fact the world war ii
morse code machine oh okay what do you got for me this time well i think what i have here is a 1836
artillery foot soldiers sword okay i wouldn't clean my toenails with this
i came down here today to sell my 1836
artillery soldier sword i actually got it at a garage sale paid 75 dollars for
it and as close as i could find the value of it somewhere around six seven eight hundred dollars
so why do you think it's from 1836 well it says 1836 on it okay yeah damn it does
to have something from the 1830s u.s military is really cool because it was a really really small
military we're not at war with anybody states have their militias we didn't really need a large army
when people think of swords from the 1830s they think of really elaborately engraved
curved blades from the cavalry but those were mostly for officers and usually only on the
parade ground this sword was for the enlisted man so what do you want to do with it well
what i'd like to do is sell this to you okay if this is from the 1830s it could be really rare
but they use these in the military from like the 1830s all the way up to like the 1880s i mean this
is my problem i don't know if this 1836 is the model number or i don't know if this was the year
it was made or i don't know if someone put that 1836 there our army in the 1830s numbered only in
the thousands go forward less than 30 years to the civil war and you're talking millions of soldiers
so the date is going to tell me how rare it is and that's a huge part of the value i got a good idea
of the price but i have to make sure it is what i think it is so let me call someone get them down
here have a look at this thing if everything checks out we can do business great i'm glad
to see the expert come in because it'll give all of us an opportunity to know whether or not this
is really authentic how you doing mark how's it going doing all right the guys normally call me
down when they've got an historical artifact that they want a little bit more information on so
what do we have we have an artillery sword and a scabbard well it's a nice find i can tell you that
it is a foot artillery sword it wasn't a particularly good sword in battle
what most of these were used for was to clear brush when you were moving artillery pieces around
in 1836 we were a very small country we hadn't yet gone from one coast to the other we didn't issue
a lot of swords guns or anything because we didn't need to so what are your concerns
i know they had these things for years but i want you to give me a date on it
the nice thing here is that this is the original type of scabbard the buckle is an 1836 buckle
you can just barely make out right under the date there's a jm
and that's the inspector's mark okay that's the inspector that the military had who was
checking each one of these the date on it 1836 is the manufacture date this is all correct
even though the condition is terrible you know unfortunately but this is a complete setup
excellent good for me thank you very much mark i appreciate it you're the best man all righty i was
very relieved to find out that it was real it just means more money in my pocket all right now that
i know it's from 1836 um they're going for like 700 800 bucks let me give you 400 bucks for it
i think for 400 bucks i i'd probably put it up on the mantel how about six
we got some condition issues how about 450 it's pretty rare i'd feel a lot better about 500.
all right 500 bucks 500 bucks it is thank you
well we did end up on 500 and at the end of the day i think it was fair on both people's part