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Hello colleagues, I found this saber on the internet for sale but before deciding anything since I do not know anything about it, it seems German by its forms but I do not know its time and if it is indeed German or to which army belongs, I would be grateful to The knowledge of the most understood.










Thanks for your comments.

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I have asked the seller and apparently has no manufacturer seal, is this remarkable and usual?

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Mansvelt & Zoon is a dutch firm and s´Gravenhage is vernacular for The Hague.
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It looks like an Infantry officer's saber mod. 1912 Netherlands.

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Could it be that this saber was a protagonist in World War I?

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It is unlikely, Holland was a neutral country in WW1



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And is it usual for this type of sabers to have no manufacturer seal? Do you know who made them?

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Manufacturer's stamp may be absent, it is not unusual. Similar variant of ferrule i seen on the hilt from Hörster, E. & F. It is necessary to ask the distributor (Mansvelt & Zoon) smile

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It is a Dutch army officer's saber. Eickhorn made some and it is shown in the Eickhorn export catalog for the Netherlands model # 369. Joe S

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IMHO Design differs from Eickhorn.

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I mean this one

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Bone that could be its German manufacturer, although we are not sure, What more manufacturers made this sword or could manufacture it even though it did not have a manufacturing seal? I find interesting the debate that has been formed with this piece.

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Your original attachment shows two different sabers, one with a plain ferrule, one with an embellished one. The embellished one looks like an Eickhorn pattern, but it could have been made by someone else. The sword is definitely a Dutch army officers saber from the 1930s. It is exactly like one from my collection . The Blade etching is Dutch for "Eisenhouser, which literally means "Iron Cutting" and refers to a high quality blade. I sold my Eickhorn export catalogs and cannot find a copy of the page depicting your saber, but if I do, I will post it. Joe S

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Thanks for your comments, every day I learn more with you, what price in the market can reach a saber like the one I show?

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I sold mine about two years ago for $400
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