Original Spanish-American War Spanish Officer’s Gorget in Original Velvet-Lined Box Antique Gun Parts The iron tsuba (cross guard)

The iron tsuba (cross guard) is a rounded MOKKO GATA (quince) shape

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it would appear that if these are post-Revolutionary War contract weapons

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Original Spanish-American War Spanish Officer’s Gorget in Original Velvet-Lined Box Antique Gun Parts The iron tsuba (cross guard)Original Item. Only One Available. A gorget, from the French gorge meaning throat, was a band of linen wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period or the lower part of a simple chaperon hood. The term later described a steel or leather collar to protect the throat, a set of pieces of plate armor, or a single piece of plate armor hanging from the neck and covering the throat and chest. Later, particularly from the 18th century, the