Spring 2025 Premier Firearms & Militaria Auction
May 8th, 9th, 10th, & 11th, 2025
This auction will feature an outstanding collection of items spanning multiple categories including Modern, Military, Sporting, & Antique firearms & militaria! Below is just a small grouping of select highlights from the massive offering to be featured in this upcoming sale!
CONFEDERATE MCELROY MACON GA INSCRIBED FOOT OFFICER’S SWORD, ASST. SURGEON LL STROZER, 4th GEORGIA INFANTRY
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Classic McElroy foot sword, 29″ blade with square stopped fuller, unique McElroy whimsical blade etch using decorated windows around panels, script CS, crossed flags, “L.L. STROZER” in same old German script. “W. J. McElroy / Macon Ga” is etched forward of one ricasso. Hilt is one variant used by McElroy being his copy of the US pattern 1850, but with plain undecorated pommel and quillon. Unique to McElroy is the added etched (not cast or engraved) floral decoration on top & bottom of hilt, and pommel. The original McElroy scabbard has pinned brass mounts with thin sword rings characteristic to Macon made swords.
Lucurgus L. Strozer (1836-) and brother Cyrus S. Strozer both enlisted in Albany Georgia into Company E, 4th Georgia infantry of famous Dole-Cook Brigade. Brother Cyrus was badly wounded, shot in elbow May 13, 1864. I wonder if his physician brother who carried this sword treated him? Lycurgus served through most of war in Virginia with his brother, but after being listed as present at Camp Rodes, near Petersburg January 4, 1865, he then appears on rolls as asst. surgeon for Engineer Corps Macon GA March 4, 1865. After the war, he continued practicing medicine in Albany GA, listed as druggist in Albany census, 1870. It is difficult to find McElroy swords with their original leather scabbards and all three matching mounts like this one.
