Identifying a military dress sword.
Apr 17, 2021 18:13:08 GMT
Post by kjakker on Apr 17, 2021 18:13:08 GMT
Hello, I would like help in identifying a military dress sword.
My grandfather brought it back from World War II. According to him it was part of a crossed swords wall display at a Hitler Youth school in, as I recall, Austria. He original had the cross swords as a set but he had to give one of the pair up to another solder due to size restrictions on packages only to have the size limit increased after he had given the other sword away. My grandmother gave it to me after he died.
The sword's lack of any Nazi iconography leading me to believe that it predated the rise of the Nazi party and/or is of prewar non-German origin.
The scabbard is stamped with a T on the end of it.
The mark below is a curved word starting with the letters ER and then the lettering is warn away. Under it is the word BRESCIA. Beneath that is an A inside an arced line.
Maybe it was an oval with a lettered mark inside that did not fully set? That is just supposition on my part.
My grandfather brought it back from World War II. According to him it was part of a crossed swords wall display at a Hitler Youth school in, as I recall, Austria. He original had the cross swords as a set but he had to give one of the pair up to another solder due to size restrictions on packages only to have the size limit increased after he had given the other sword away. My grandmother gave it to me after he died.
The sword's lack of any Nazi iconography leading me to believe that it predated the rise of the Nazi party and/or is of prewar non-German origin.
The scabbard is stamped with a T on the end of it.
The mark below is a curved word starting with the letters ER and then the lettering is warn away. Under it is the word BRESCIA. Beneath that is an A inside an arced line.
Maybe it was an oval with a lettered mark inside that did not fully set? That is just supposition on my part.
