Sword
date: label: date made
content: ca 1745
notes: label: Description
content: Gentleman's dress or small sword with silver hilt, tapered triangular blade, and stitched leather scabbard. Typical hilt with pear-shaped pommel, silver twisted-wire wrapped grip, and plain counterguard, currently upside down, engraved "Sam\ll Lord" in script on the hilt side of one shell and struck once "HURD" in raised serif letters in a rectangle on the blade side of the other shell.
label: Description
content: Attributed to Jacob Hurd (1702/3-1758) of Boston, MA; he was a prolific silversmith and numerous examples of his work survive. Two of his sons Nathaniel (1730-1778) and Benjamin (1739-1781), were also silversmiths.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383531
label: catalog number
content: 383531
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sword
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (hilt material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (scabbard material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 33 1/4 in x 3 in; 6.35 cm x 84.455 cm x 7.62 cm