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Silver Plated, Engraved, and Etched Ball, Black & Co./Collins & Co. Officer’s Sword and an Ornate and Inscribed Scabbard Presented to Capt. Spencer W. Richardson of the 44th Massachusetts Volunteers - The right side of the scabbard is inscribed “Presented by the Members & Friends of the/MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSN/of Boston/To Capt. Spencer W. Richardson/Co. E/44th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers raised under/the auspices of the Association.”The association ran a subscription library and hosted lecture series which included notable figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Ward Beecher among many others. Spencer Welles Richardson enlisted in the 44th Massachusetts Militia for nine months as captain of Company E in August 1862.
