Swords Seized in Connecticut May Be William Henry Harrison's-- Part 2: Real Or Not?

James Kochan, the sword's owner, said it was authentic and that it belonged to him, but he reluctantly turned it over to the police.  It is now in the custody of Hamilton County where the Harrison-Symmes Foundation says  they had donated it to the Hamilton County Probate Court in 1922.

Documents show the court loaned it to the Cincinnati Historical Society, which used it in their 1976 Bicentennial display,, but sometime in the next few years, it disappeared while in the society's storage in its museum.

The Society didn't publicize the  theft and the Harrison-Symmes Foundation became aware that it was gone when they asked for it back for a display in the 1993 celebration of the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Village of Cleves, 15 miles west of Cincinnati where John Simmes was a pioneering landowner.

So, Is It Or Isn't It The Real Deal?  --Brock-Perry