Even taking into consideration the fading, the laddering should still be noticeable and the difference between the blue green center stripe and white outer stripes.
Quite an impressive firearm. If the workmanship was as good, an improvement over the Mauser which has always been one of my favorites. The ribbed barrel is especially nice. Looks like they expected a lot of rapid firing. Do the 2 thingies in the butt regulate rate of fire, and if so, how? BTW, this is the first time I've seen this post. I don't get out of Imperial much.
Speaking from (rather erratic) memory, the twin squirels was an earlier mark, possibly from the 1890's. "In Treue Fest" seems to be common to all Bavarian swords, but nothing nearly as ornate as yours.
Got it in one And probably leftovers from the Napoleonic Wars, second Danish War, and Austrian War, as KDM's were made from cannon from their own discrete wars. Maybe they were made so big to clear out old stock :lol:
Thanks, Rick. I just managed to find Haunit in the '91 Rangliste on Google but couldn't in the 1890 Addressbuch. I'll have to fumble about some more and see what I can find.
That's the Hungarian Holy Crown of St. Stephen with the cross straightened so if not a pure fantasy piece it's a liberal interpretation of a Hungarian award. Seems to me the swords would be redundant, as the wreath signifies a war decoration. Purty li'l thing, though.
In my quest for information on 2 Franco-Prussian War officers I'm having a literacy problem. Being S?tterlinly challenged there are some words on their EKII docs I can't make out. On the Wibel doc in the handwritten section I can make out his name and K?niglich and 3"Infantrie Regiment Prinz Carl, but that's all.
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