Preussischer Kürassier - Offiziersdegen

Cast brass grip, multiple openwork three-quarter hilt with a crowned eagle sitting on a shell-set pedestal beneath sunbeams, a vertically applied scroll and large thumb ring on the obverse side, leather-covered grip with a vase-shaped pommel and dense winding of twisted brass wire, broad blade with a single edge, short fullers of 59 cm length on both sides and a short, rounded point, minimal ricasso of a few millimeters, smith's mark "POTZDAM" (0.5 x 2.2 cm) on the obverse side of the hilt, crowned "FWR" cipher etched on the obverse side, blade l 92 cm, w 3.4 cm, total l 109 cm, weight 1.370 gr, Prussia/Potsdam probably ~1790, overall good condition with minor signs of age and use, winding re-soldered in two places, otherwise apparently untouched 0118 The sword corresponds in its entirety to the known models, the "FWR" blade etching with the alloy "W", however, is very rare, for a comparative piece see: Gerd Meier 1976, Preussische Blankwaffen, vol. I, p. 109 (on a cuirassier's sabre) Lit.: Bernd A. Windsheimer 2001, Me fecit Potzdam - Altpreussische Blankwaffen des 18. Jahrhunderts, fig. 337 ff. with various, almost identical models