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Fred, your post makes me honestly happy.
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quote: Originally posted by Sword-Fish:
Hi Tex,
The subject has been breached primarily because some folks attribute the Eickhorn Prinz Eugen to both the Heer and the SS. There are a couple mentions of it in literature. The 1st I could find was from John Angolia in his Swords Of German book from the 80's. Some here are speculating that this theory was cerated to increase the value of a typically Officer/NCO style FM saber. Johnson in his newest sword series has only 1 mention of it. Volume 2 has an image of a degen side by side with a Eugen saber, both sporting standard SS knots. Additionaly there exists a period photo of an SS officer rollinig with the Eugen. To the best of everyones knowledge that photo is the only period example documented.
Hope this clears it up and sheds some light on the discussion point.
T
Hi Tom, For everyone who hasnt seen it. Here is the photo in Angolia's book.  . Cheers, Ibrahim, Singapore.
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I dont think I have ever seen the other photos, but I have never believed that the sword in Angolia's photos is a Prinz Eugen. Its way to fuzzy to say what it is except it clearly isnt the standard Degen. It could be just about anything. Joe S
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Thanks for posting the photo Ibrahim. This wasn't the photo I was thinking of. I thought I recalled seeing a image of an SS officer wearing what was a clearly identifiable PE. However, now i'm questioning my recollection at this point. As far as the image above goes, I honestly could not say definitively if that is a PE he's wearing. Just not clear enough.
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