Original Imperial German Pre-WWI Model 1889 Prussian Infantry Officer Dress Sword with Scabbard by F. Damaschke Garand & U.S. Rifles mainly designed to reduce the

mainly designed to reduce the weight and improve the fragmentation properties

along with their revolvers were carried at all times

the type of hardware etc

so it may have been a way of really bringing out the effect

There is also a very nice Hochrot (Deep Red) V-shaped soutache

Original Imperial German Pre-WWI Model 1889 Prussian Infantry Officer Dress Sword with Scabbard by F. Damaschke Garand & U.S. Rifles mainly designed to reduce theOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice Imperial German Model 1889 Infantry Officer sword and scabbard, as used up until the end of WWI. The hilt is a gilded brass basket guard with 3 fingers. The sharkskin grip is still mostly intact, with some wear on the raised portions. This model of sword would often have a leather fore finger loop on the inside of the guard, this example still partially retains the leather, and it is in solid