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No. 27592801

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Austria - Wyersberg Kirschbaum & Co. Solingen - M1869 cavalry officer’s sword German blade - KuK Kavallerie-Offizierssäbel Muster 1869 - Sabre
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€ 150
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Austria - Wyersberg Kirschbaum & Co. Solingen - M1869 cavalry officer’s sword German blade - KuK Kavallerie-Offizierssäbel Muster 1869 - Sabre

Jeff Browning

Selected by Jeff Browning
An Austro-Hungarian M1869 cavalry officer’s sword with German produced blade. KuK Kavallerie-Offizierssäbel Muster 1869. Origin: Austro-Hungarian Empire, after 1869. Blade: steel slightly bent single edged blade with one wide fuller one (!) side. Other side – flat. Maker’s mark on ricasso: WEIERSBERG.KIRSCHBAUM / & Co. / SOLINGEN. Closed steel hilt, yelman in shape of round basket, finished one side with cylindrical finial, other side reaching the pommel, open-work cut and engraved. Long back strap from the pommel to ring above the yelman. Grip of wood covered with a fish leather, fixed with twisted steel wire. Scabbard missing. Total length – 102,7 cm; length of the blade – 87,8 cm; width – 27 mm; thickness – 5,5 mm.

No. 27592801

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Austria - Wyersberg Kirschbaum & Co. Solingen - M1869 cavalry officer’s sword German blade - KuK Kavallerie-Offizierssäbel Muster 1869 - Sabre

Austria - Wyersberg Kirschbaum & Co. Solingen - M1869 cavalry officer’s sword German blade - KuK Kavallerie-Offizierssäbel Muster 1869 - Sabre

An Austro-Hungarian M1869 cavalry officer’s sword with German produced blade.

KuK Kavallerie-Offizierssäbel Muster 1869.

Origin: Austro-Hungarian Empire, after 1869.

Blade: steel slightly bent single edged blade with one wide fuller one (!) side. Other side – flat. Maker’s mark on ricasso: WEIERSBERG.KIRSCHBAUM / & Co. / SOLINGEN.

Closed steel hilt, yelman in shape of round basket, finished one side with cylindrical finial, other side reaching the pommel, open-work cut and engraved. Long back strap from the pommel to ring above the yelman. Grip of wood covered with a fish leather, fixed with twisted steel wire.

Scabbard missing.

Total length – 102,7 cm; length of the blade – 87,8 cm; width – 27 mm; thickness – 5,5 mm.

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