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190 - Officer’s saber of the 51st Field Artillery Regiment.
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Officer’s saber of the 51st Field Artillery Regiment. Blücher-style hilt made of nickel-plated steel. Long-tailed pommel attached to the ferrule. Blücher-style crossguard, half-ear-shaped crossbar, and teardrop-shaped quillon. Wooden tang covered with filigree-patterned stingray leather (small chip). Curved hilt with hollow sides, engraved with trophies, foliage, and “2.OBER ELS.FELDARTILL. REG. No. 51” in Gothic script (probably shortened by a few centimeters). Black-painted steel scabbard, showing oxidation. Date: at the outbreak of war. The 51st Feldartillery Regiment was a military unit of the German Imperial Army formed in the late 19th century and stationed in Strasbourg. It served primarily on the Western Front during World War I, participating in the battles of 1914, in trench warfare—notably at Verdun—and then in the final offensives of 1918, before being disbanded following Germany’s defeat and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France.
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