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30" single-edged blade with 22.5" median fuller, 1.25" wide at ricasso. Blade with fire blued and gilt panoplies of arms in the classical style. Brass hilt with octagonal langlets and single quillon, the pommel in the form of a lion's head. Hilt is adorned with floral motifs with the langlets depicting a Mexican eagle on the reverse with a liberty cap on the obverse. Detailed bone grip. Outside of knuckle-bow engraved in Gothic-type script "GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA PEREZ DE LEBRON".  Scabbard of correct lapped brass construction with two handing rings featuring supports of Mexican eagles. There is some question as two which of the two swords from the Sam Houston Family Collection is the sword carried at San Jacinto by General Santa Anna. An article published in the New York Times on February 28, 1898, reprints a response by Sam Houston's son Andrew, published in the Cincinnati Enquirer concerning a claim made by an artist in the city that the latter possessed the sword surrendered by Santa Anna to Houston after the battle. While Houston admitted the sword owned by the Cincinnati man may have once been owned by Santa Anna, the sword surrendered at the battle was "in possession of my family here in Texas". Inheriting the fighting spirit of his father, he states that the sword would "remain [in the family] unless I should find it necessary to carry it....in the prospective war with Spain." Houston does not describe the sword in detail, but the article confirms that one of the two swords from his family's collection, subsequently offered at this auction, is the San Jacinto sword of Santa Anna. **Good condition. Blade is most bright with some scattered oxidation. Some moderate dark brown rust on blade under langlets, with very old leather washer still remaining. Good gilt and bluing remaining on blade. Grip shows an old stable crack from age along its length. Hilt is in good condition with some scattered verdigris. Scabbard is good with matching age and a minor stable split near mouth along seam, along with some handling marks and blemishes.** Provenance Sam Houston Family Collection $75,000-150,000
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111 Beech Street Newport, KY 41071 USA, New Port, Kentucky, 41071, United States
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