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    Posted 9 years ago

    Chrisnp
    (310 items)

    Here are two private purchase versions of the 1889 German Infantry Officer’s sword I more fully described in my last post.

    The larger of the two was a nice quality sword when it was new. The difference between this and the arsenal sword I posted is a single strand of wire wrap instead of two wraps, and the grips appear to be pebbled leather. The guard is only slightly smaller than the arsenal version and has the typical folding, rather than fixed guard. Like the arsenal sword, this one has the royal cypher in the grip and the Prussian eagle on the guard. Unfortunately, it appears the blade was broken about 8 ½ inches down, and I think someone reattached the two pieces with an arc welder or the like. Most of the surface of the blade above and below the weld was completely ruined in the process.

    I purchased the other sword on eBay cheap, thinking I would replace the blade on the first sword, and re-sell the hilt for parts. Only when it arrived did I realize how much difference there was in size. This second one is so much smaller, it almost appears to be a child’s sword next to the other. There is no way the blade tang would make it through the other hilt. This one sports a cheaper, damaged celluloid wrapped grip, and the wire and royal cypher have gone missing. The blade riccasso is maker marked with a set of scales surrounded by the letters ACS, for Alexander Coppell of Solingen.

    The last photo displays the two swords with the sword from my last post.

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    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 9 years ago
      Chris, I've gotten to where I just do quick scans of CW. Luv your posts but getting disheartened with only rarely interesting finds. Don't you miss AR? I think when he got banned over BS, things took a bad turn down hill for CW. We had a clique. We still keep in close touch. 20 yr old K-Mart stuff, just doesn't seem to catch my attention! It seems that we get interesting things by mere chance! I follow at the end of the week just for your interesting posts & several others. Ebay would probably crush us like an ant if we tried to open our own filtered site though.
    2. fortapache fortapache, 9 years ago
      Chris does indeed have great items.
      That and excellent descriptions.
    3. Chrisnp Chrisnp, 9 years ago
      Thanks Blunder and Fort. I also wish AR hadn't left, although he could get a bit...umm...er...grumpy.
    4. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 9 years ago
      Hey, AR had some great stuff & was educational. Learned a lot from him. We still keep in touch.
    5. Chrisnp Chrisnp, 9 years ago
      Don't get me wrong, I like him too. He also knows what he's talking about in his fields of interest.
    6. Chrisnp Chrisnp, 9 years ago
      Thanks for the love vintagelamp, battlegear, antiquerose, SEAN68, fortapache, blunder, officialfuel, aghcollect and pw-collector.

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