Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2527MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: November 20, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
French Hanger Sword, 1780-83, touchmark "MR," brass hilt with entwined USA on guard, lg. 25 1/2 in.
Literature: George C. Neumann's Battle Weapons of the American Revolution, 1998, Scarlock Publishing Inc., p. 314, 32.ss, suggests that this was the short sword obtained for the American Revolutionary Army Corp of Light Infantry by Lafayette.
Estimate $600-800