Original Imperial German WWI Triple Etched Duchy of Brunswick Officers Dress Sword with Scabbard German Artwork & Posters and a very nice acid-etched

and a very nice acid-etched RAD Motto: Arbeit adelt (Work Ennobles)

Comes complete with the original cloth over cardboard liner and cloth chin strap

(Campbell) Cain on graduation and was assigned to the Company M 2nd BN 310 Infantry 78th Division of Camp Butner

It also is marked FRONTIER above the cylinder by the rear sight

Fully operational except that the firing pin nose on the hammer has been shortened as a safety precaution

Original Imperial German WWI Triple Etched Duchy of Brunswick Officers Dress Sword with Scabbard German Artwork & Posters and a very nice acid-etchedOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a nice example of an Imperial German Officers dress sword, with a lovely "Triple Etched" nickel plated steel blade. Markings on the blade indicate that it was owned by an officer from the Herzogtum Braunschweig (Duchy of Brunswick), one of the component states of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. The different states still had some level of independence even then, so the swords they used often