Infantry officer's sword, Mecklenburg, 19th/20th century.

Sword length in scabbard 965 mm, spade length 905 mm, head length 775 mm, head width at base 17 mm, back thickness at base 5 mm, spade weight 475 g, spade weight in scabbard 850 g.

Hand closed, brass binding. Esau-shaped, disc-shaped hilt. The front part of the hilt, arched and split halfway, forms a bail fixed with a catch under the head. On the outer side of the hinged hilt, a shield, decorated with the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg. The shaft of the handle is wooden, spun in the middle part, diagonally notched, wrapped in leather and laced with brass filigree, attached with a ring at the hilt at the bottom, at the top with a short hood. In the front part of the flat hilt fixed leather loop for the index finger. On the outer side of the hilt the inscription: "KIRMSE R.J.R. 66 WAFENSTR.". The hilt of polished steel, nickel-plated, straight. Profiled on both sides, with a long sill in two dorsal furrows, reaching a short, double-edged pen. The neck is symmetrical. On the back below the sill the maker's signature: "M. NEUMAN BERLIN/HOFLIEFERANT". P o c h w a steel, polished, painted black, with a single riffle with a movable butt on the back. Fluted neck fixed in the scabbard sheath with two screws. The spur is symmetrical. At the spade hangs an officer's Mecklenburg sling.
state of preservation: 5/5/5