Germany, Weimar Republic. A Reichsmarine Officer’s Sword, By E. & F. Hörster Hold Hanover Tinnie - Bronze gilt

Hanover Tinnie - Bronze gilt on die-stamped tin

dated "1945-1946"

47 mm (w) x 36

or in the field

In cast bronzed steel

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Reichsmarine Officer’s Sword, By E. & F. Hörster Hold Hanover Tinnie - Bronze gilt(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