Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Three-Piece Horn Grip Antique Percussion Firearms leather backed chin scales

leather backed chin scales

having most of the original plated finish

The left side of the frame carries the large: U

There is a bit of overall wear and spots of fouling and oxidation

- One PAIR (left and right) of 1935 Pattern Heer Army Panzer EM/NCO field uniform collar tabs

Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Three-Piece Horn Grip Antique Percussion Firearms leather backed chin scalesOriginal Item: One of a Kind. These very unusual swords with very very curved blades come from the "Horn of Africa," which includes Abyssinia, which we now know as Ethiopia. Made famous just before WWII by the Italian Invasion of that Country, and the appeal by it's Emperor Haile Selassie to the League of Nations, which the Western Powers basically ignored. It's Capital is ADDIS ABABA, a city dating back some 2,000 years and more. A Country much in