Original German 19th Century Saxon M.1840 Faschinenmesser Pioneer Artillery Short Sword - Regiment Marked MG 34 Mounts balls had a muzzle velocity

balls had a muzzle velocity of about 900 feet per second (274 meters/second)

Stalag XIIA was their first opportunity to write a postcard home to their family

the 458th Bomb Group participated in an attack on one of NSDAP Germany’s last remaining oil refinery facilities at Harburg just south of Hamburg

It has been reconditioned

wide fuller and a narrow fuller 18½" long

Original German 19th Century Saxon M.1840 Faschinenmesser Pioneer Artillery Short Sword - Regiment Marked MG 34 Mounts balls had a muzzle velocityOriginal Item: Only One Available. These are the traditional Sidearms of SAXONY, one of the independent German City States that existed prior to the unification of Germany under Bismarck in 1871. Each State had it's own characteristic sidearms, this Faschinenmesser Sword was one used by Saxony. The 24 1 4 long sword has a large Cleaver shaped blade of 19" mounted onto an all brass ribbed grip bag shaped hilt with a brass "S" cross guard. The name