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Customer commentsedged weapons
This comprises the study and development of swords, daggers, polearms and Third Reich dress dirks. Most of this material is well covered by excellent modern reference books and examples can be seen in European and American museums. My own personal interest is in 18th-century small swords, Napoleonic era swords and naval dirks. Museums with important collections include: the Royal Armouries, Leeds; the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London W1; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Musee de l'Armee, Paris; Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna; and various other museums in European capitals.
Here is a selection of militaria from this category:
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Runka or Ranseur (polearm) - Italian
This classic Italian (almost certainly made in the Veneto, Venice's hinterland) infantry polearm saw continuous use from the late 15th to the early 17th century. The Metropolitan Museum shows five of these in Stone's Glossary. The Palazzo Ducale armoury in Venice has four examples. This is the earlier variant, the later ones having shorter blades.
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US Navy cutlass, model 1860 - American
This cutlass was the classic Civil War piece used by the Union Navy up until as late as the early stages of WW2 and superceded only in the 20th century by a later pattern with a sheet steel guard. It was modelled on the French cutlass of the Napoleonic Wars, which latter, however, had a sheet steel guard.
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Prussian train batallion/artillery sabre - German
This is the last pattern artillery sabre, in use by the German army until 1918, and through the 20s and 30s. In the very early years of WW2, this model of sabre was also carried by the Third Reich cavalry. Further, it was worn by the Polish cavalry as booty in the form of reparations from WW1.
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Fighting knife - German
This rare boot knife has what appears to be a belt clip on the top of the scabbard. These weapons were made in the closing years of WW2, when many of the troops were issued with self-loading assault rifles which has no provision for a bayonet. The absence of inspection stamps might suggest this was a private purchase item.
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US machine gunners Bolo knife, 1917 model - American
This is the Bolo knife designed more as a tool than a combat weapon for the 'Doughboy' (slang name for US GIs in WW1) machine gunners in France. There is a maker's mark on the base of the blade, which appears to be double stamped, possibly Plumb. There is a scabbard maker's mark on the leather chape - something like Grauer 1918.
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