Identify Imperial Saber

[cerick]

Hi All.

Please help identify the sword I recently picked up. It does not have a scabbard and appears to be nickel plated. It is also etched "In Treue Fest".

What type of sabre is it?
What vintage?
Any value?
Here are the Pic's
http://pmdmce.home.mchsi.com/sword.JPG
http://pmdmce.home.mchsi.com/sword1.JPG
http://pmdmce.home.mchsi.com/sword2.JPG
http://pmdmce.home.mchsi.com/sword3.JPG
Thanks
Charlie

[paddywhack]

looks like a dove tailed sabre! value well i got one off estand there and it also had no scabard and had the same etching on it and i got it for $130!

[Newlyn]

Bavarian, almost certainly artillery, I have one virtually identical with a Bavarian artillery regt. etch. Never wired, hilt plastic composition like many Bavarian swords.

[Wild Card]

Hi Cerick,

Although this is far from my area of interest, I agree that, based on the “In Treue Fest” inscription that your sword is Bavarian. Further, according to John Angola’s book Swords of Germany 1900-1945/Imperial Supplement by Gregory Douglas, the logo on your sword indicates that it was made Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie post 1883.

I hope that this information is helpful,

Wild Card