Eickhorn Prince Eugen Pattern Field Marshal Sword

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This pattern is an absolutely a favorite of collectors. Nice 33" plated blade rates Exc++. The owner was a big guy!! The blade is stamped with the post 35-41 period Eickhorn mark. The buffer is intact. The blade has some dots of age and no nail catchers. The black enamel painted scabbard is dent free and has decent paint with wear, crazing and scuffs towards the drag. This very distinctive hilt is made of gilt zinc, don't bother looking for a brass based example, they were never made in brass! Look at that evil looking bird on the pommel, now compare it to the 4th pattern Army dagger or even the TENO! Obviously Designed by the famous Casberg, their artist had a love of this eagle! Some of the gilding is worn or polished from the hilt. The black celluloid over wood grip is crack and chip free. This example is illustrated in Angolia's reference pg 82/83. The end of the crossguard terminates with a swirl. Both the back-strap and the knuckle bow are ornately decorated. Certainly one of the most desirable of all Eickhorn Patterns. The sword is Carl Eickhorn’s Prinz Eugen Model 1765 It was introduced in August 1939, as a part of Eichorn’s Field Marshal series. Wittmann writes about this model specifying that “it was also easy to assume this must have been an SS version, certainly carried by members of the Waffen-SS division Prinz Eugen.” (p.339). John Angolia also features in “Swords of Hitler’s Third Reich” an SS officer wearing a Prinz Eugen Sword stating: “Most probably officers of the SS Division Prinz Eugen gained permission for their officers to officially wear the sword pattern ‘Prinz Eugen’ as it lauded the name of the Divisions’ namesake.” This point was recently supported by this example.