Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Sabre, Lion’s Head Version, by E. & F. Hörster Auction Against the enemy

Against the enemy

on loop for suspension (marked “W

with one end completing in a silver aluminum wire fringe retaining an internal metal reinforcement

72 mm (h) and weighs 40

one Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 for War Bereaved

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Sabre, Lion’s Head Version, by E. & F. Hörster Auction Against the enemy(Heer Sbel fr Offiziere mit Lwenkopf). A very well preserved Heer Officers dress parade sabre, measuring 105 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features an 82. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a gentle curvature and which retains factory original sharpening to the tip. A wide fuller runs the majority of the length of the upper edge of each side of the blade. The obverse ricasso bears a makers mark of E. U. F.