Original Imperial German M1871 Garde du Corps Oberjäger Hirschfänger Short Sword with Scabbard by Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie French Antique Guns with one bamboo securing peg

with one bamboo securing peg

with thirteen stars surrounding the bottom of the grip

though it is missing the rear support spine for the rear visor

The reverse is engraved “KOREA” with a 4th Army SSI applied under

Original Imperial German M1871 Garde du Corps Oberjäger Hirschfänger Short Sword with Scabbard by Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie French Antique Guns with one bamboo securing pegOriginal 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,