Third Reich Officer's Sabre with Brass Guard, Oak Leaf Decoration and Eagle
Steel, brass, Pertinax and wire wrapping. Wehrmacht (Army) officer's sabre with D-shaped brass knuckle bow guard. Imperial eagle with spread wings on the guard tongue, national emblem beneath. The knuckle bow bears relief oak leaf decoration on both sides, the thumb rest at the bow junction with floral ornamentation. Black Pertinax grip with silver-coloured wire wrapping. Slightly curved blade. Black-lacquered steel scabbard with one movable suspension ring and rounded chape. Blade in very good condition, wire wrapping even and largely intact, original scabbard lacquer with minor signs of use. No maker's mark. Overall length 95 cm, blade length 76 cm.
The officer's sabre with imperial eagle and oak leaf decoration on the D-shaped knuckle bow guard was the representative side arm of German Army (Heer) officers. The pattern originated in the Reichswehr tradition and was continued with the establishment of the Wehrmacht in 1935. Production was carried out by renowned Solingen manufacturers: Carl Eickhorn (steel goods factory, founded 1865), WKC (Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie., since 1883), Paul Weyersberg & Co. (founded 1840), or Alcoso (Alexander Coppel Solingen). The Pertinax grip – a phenolic resin laminate pressed under heat and pressure – increasingly replaced the earlier celluloid and wood grips from the mid-1930s and is characterised by high weather resistance. Without a maker's mark, such sabres are probably attributable to later wartime production (from c. 1940), when marking requirements were simplified.
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