Interesting Naval Sword

[simply daggers]

Hi all.

I have been asked by a customer to sell this sword on their behalf.
Although I deal all the time with daggers on my website, I do not really know much about swords and so would appreciate any help with identification and possible value.
I am confident from the etching and crossguard that it is a German Naval Sword possibly Imperial due to the insignia and can see that the maker is WKC.
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Any help much appreciated.

Ian
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[Jeff Nichols]

Hi Ian, Looks like a nice Imperial Era naval sword. I like the horizontal anchor on the folding hand gaurd, they also were made with vertical anchor motif. Etching is fine. I'm guessing a high end retail would be around $1500+. You don't see these often. Nice sword.
Cheers...Jeff

[pvluger]

Imperial indeed. A period photo of this exact model can be seen in Wittmann's Naval bible on page 444. I belive it to be a model No.42 in the W.K. &C. catalog from the 1890s. Nice!

[simply daggers]

Navy Sabre

Thanks for the help guys.

Shame it has no scabbard but I will try and sell it on the forum on behalf of my customer.

Thanks and best wishes.

Ian
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