Germany, Imperial. A Forestry Cutlass certificate_of_authenticity with a single bronze gilt

with a single bronze gilt slider on both ends near the buckle

1893 in Perth

Textbook badge by this maker in fire gilded tombac

he turned the modest German navy and molded it into a force on par with the British Royal Navy

with a machine embroidered tricolour (black

Germany, Imperial. A Forestry Cutlass certificate_of_authenticity with a single bronze gilt(Forstdienst Hirschfnger). A very well preserved Forestry cutlass, measuring 55 cm in total length. It features a 41. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and lower edge. The blade bears double sided, acid etched designs featuring forest and hunting imagery, including a deer, hunter, rifles, and other equipment interspersed with arabesques. Unmarked, the blade sits securely within a multi piece hilt with a gilded bronze