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LOT 1471
Kriegsmarine WWI German Naval Officer's Sword
EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
37 1/4 in. (612 grams, 94.5 cm).
Comprising a slender single-edged blade; the hilt composed of a wire-bound ribbed bone handle, a lion-head pommel with inset eyes (one absent), and an ornate guard with a folding edge to one side. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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