Subject: gentleman officer
Culture: Colonial-Revolutionary American
Setting: 13 Colonies, American Revolution, North America 18thc
Object: smallsword
* Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art
"American Silver-Hilted Smallswords Back, left to right:
1. Robert Fairchild (1703-1794) Stratford and Durham, Conn., about 1730
2. William Little (active 1725-1775) Newburyport, Mass., about 1730
3. Bartholomew Schaats (1670-1758) New York, about 1730-1740
4. Jacob Hurd (1703-1758) Boston, about 1730-40
5. Unmarked American, about 1740-50
6. Benjamin Burt (1729-1805) Boston, about 1760
7. Daniel Rogers (1735-1816) Ipswich, Mass., about 1760-70"
