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Post by pabyco1 on Mar 20, 2024 18:37:57 GMT
So my sister found this sword tucked into the rafters a house she bought a couple years ago. Attempts to contact the sellers failed and no one came looking for it. She is finally tired of hanging on to it and so passed it to me. My limited searching online indicates this is a German sword that maybe came home with a US service member at the end of WW2? Can anyone tell me anything about it? thanks, Paul-new to swords :-)
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Post by djinga on Mar 20, 2024 19:58:10 GMT
Yes, German Infantry Officer's sword. I have the same (earlier) Prussian equivalent. The Prussian scabbard ring is not fixed. I believe the Germans went to the fixed ring in 1895. Obviously pre-WW-II when they started marking everything with X (you know)..
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Post by madirish on Mar 20, 2024 20:20:58 GMT
Both of my Prussians have fixed rings. THis is more likely enlisted artillerymans' dress sabre, depending on the makers mark on the blade (look under the langets that protrude from the guard over the base of the blade and let us know what is there) would be from post 1910 through the Weimar Republic era (if the scabbard is original). Not sure what the portepee is, doesn't match any of the Imperial Era ones that I can find for officers.
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Post by pabyco1 on Mar 22, 2024 1:28:22 GMT
So I can't find anything that looks like a maker's mark or factory stamp....would a maker's stamp be somewhere else?
Anything to be made of the name and date? Is that a standard thing in Germany at that time?
Thanks, Paul
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Post by madirish on Mar 22, 2024 13:11:46 GMT
Maybe it was a retirement gift where they took an existing blade and engraved it? Often, a purpose ordered presentation sword is given for stuff like that, with fancy etching and the person's name and a message etched in.
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Post by pabyco1 on Mar 22, 2024 16:54:01 GMT
Thanks for the reply...I was thinking maybe the day the guy signed up? Or got his officers commission..?
Thanks for sharing your ideas/knowledge.
Paul
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