Germany, Weimar Republic. A Reichsmarine Officer’s Sword, By E. & F. Hörster Hold wooden framed with brown leather

wooden framed with brown leather wrapping

West Virginia from July 22

supplemented in each case by black-and-white diagram photographs

Measuring 23

he was deployed to serve in the Reich Defense Ministry where he was promoted to Captain in 1931

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Reichsmarine Officer’s Sword, By E. & F. Hörster Hold wooden framed with brown leather(Reichsmarine Offiziers Schwert). A well preserved Reichsmarine Officers sword, measuring 95 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features an 81 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and with a narrow fuller running the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. The obverse ricasso bears a makers mark of E. & F. HRSTER, SOLINGEN, while the reverse ricasso appropriately bears the