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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 27561, member: 44&quot;]&gt;The last individual you spoke with on the other site cannot be relied upon to supply valid information.&gt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Hmmmm... Hi, Davey! Hope you weren&#039;t speaking of me!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I replied to the OP&#039;s posting on the man in uniform over on the Collectibles board. I suspect the OP didn&#039;t see my posting for he hasn&#039;t replied. Then again I was only giving a suggestion. Following is my suggestion from the other board.</p><p>----</p><p>That sword, pommel and guard, looks like it may be a Knights of the Golden Eagle sword. Their swords had standing eagle pommels and crossguards with triangles/deltas. This fraternal order was formed in the 1870s. Here is one of their swords:</p><p><br /></p><p>Note the deltas in the guard and the standing eagle pommel.</p><p><a href="http://www.cutandparry.com/Fraternal.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cutandparry.com/Fraternal.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cutandparry.com/Fraternal.html</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Golden_Eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Golden_Eagle" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Golden_Eagle</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course this is just a suggestion. No doubt several other fraternal orders used eagles and deltas in their symbolism. The Masons were one, but Masonic swords tended to have knights heads as pommels. Also the star/sun, cross, etc... symbols on his sash were used by several other fraternal orders also. Knights of Columbus had this style of cross on their sashes as did other orders with many of them using Maltese crosses.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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