Item No. 6764375

Excavated iron scabbard drag fragment from a mid-nineteenth=century iron cavalry saber scabbard, typical of the U.S. Model 1840 or Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber. Features the distinctive flared bottom drag “shoe” designed to protect the scabbard tip from wear against the ground and stirrup irons.

Dug relic condition with heavy, uncleaned red-earthen oxidation and surface pitting. Displays a jagged period or ground break where the drag separated from the lower scabbard tube, along with iron breakthrough cracking near the tip. From the estate of a Texas relic hunter, although the location of its discovery is unknown.