Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Silver Mounted Scabbard circa 1850 Category_MG 34 Reciever Assembly intact wood carry handle and

intact wood carry handle and all the heart shaped prongs for retaining the grenades are present

The silver nose cap is most certainly an addition added in the Ottoman Empire

You wont find one this nice under $2000 anywhere

and minor imperfections in the blade

and has ink markings under the flap

Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Silver Mounted Scabbard circa 1850 Category_MG 34 Reciever Assembly intact wood carry handle andOriginal 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