WWII NAZI GERMAN LION HEAD OFFICER SWORD HOLLER

This example is roughly, 39.5" long, slightly curved, drop forged steel construction, nickel/silver plated blade with narrow, shallow fullers running three quarters of the way up both sides of the blade. The blade is in overall very good condition and is still very clean. The blade is marked to "F.W. HOLLER". The saber has die cast brass langets, cross guard, ferrule, "P", knuckle bow, back-strap and "lion’s head" pommel with a gilt finish. The obverse rounded tip, shield shaped langet has an embossed right facing national eagle on the obverse of the cross guard. The lion’s head pommel features a nicely detailed mane and pronounced snout with inset red glass eyes and the top of the knuckle bow is inserted into the lion’s mouth. The saber has a molded black Bakelite grip with a central bulge and repeating recessed horizontal grooves with twisted wire wrap. The gilt finish to the hilt fittings is retained about 80%. The saber comes with its original black painted sheet metal construction scabbard. The scabbard retains about 80% of its black paint. The scabbard has an integral drag to the bottom edge and a sweated on horizontal scabbard band near the top edge with a raised rectangular suspension bar to the reverse and a suspension ring to the reverse edge. Both of the small, dome headed throat retaining screws are intact. ExcellentThe Sword/Sabre is an age old military tradition, that evolved from a functional weapon into an item of uniform dress ornamentation by the start of WWI. This strong tradition continues in many army’s to this day as a symbol of strength and power. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and the reintroduction of conscription in early 1935 a wide variety of new sword and sabre designs were introduced to outfit the rapidly growing Wehrmacht