Original Imperial German M1871 Garde du Corps Oberjäger Hirschfänger Short Sword with Scabbard by Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie British Edged Weapons just below the trigger guard

just below the trigger guard tang

or matting

who rose to be his shop foreman before going out on his own

commercial market

This Bowie example was produced by “Western USA” and is believed to be the later 3rd model of this knife

Original Imperial German M1871 Garde du Corps Oberjäger Hirschfänger Short Sword with Scabbard by Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie British Edged Weapons just below the trigger guardOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Gardes du Corps (Regiment der Gardes du Corps) was the personal bodyguard of the king of Prussia and, after 1871, of the German Emperor (in German, the Kaiser). The unit was founded in 1740 by Frederick the Great, and initially, the Regiment was used in part as a training unit for officers as part of a program of expansion of the cavalry. Early officers included the rake and memoirist Friedrich von der Trenck,