Original U.S. Civil War Excavated Confederate Bridle Cutter Pike Head - Formerly Part of Dick Hammond Collection U.S. Grenades some fleet submarines

some fleet submarines

There is a single wooden securing peg (mekugi) still present

The original serial number digits 02 have been X-ed out and the new number 64 added

which could be a maker marking with a date

It is marked Mre d'Armes / Saint-Étienne on the right side of the frame and features all matching serial number G23665 on the barrel

Original U.S. Civil War Excavated Confederate Bridle Cutter Pike Head - Formerly Part of Dick Hammond Collection U.S. Grenades some fleet submarinesOriginal Item: Only One Available. Genuine Confederate Civil War Bridal Cutter Pike Head with steel blade and partial mounting cup. This Excavated Bridle Cutting Confederate pike head was more than likely found in South Carolina at the site of a burning Confederate munitions train which was destroyed by Federal troops in the Spring of 1865, leaving behind a vast surplus of these pikes. Though long spears known as Pikes dominated warfare during the