Austro-Hungarian navy sword for comment

[corrado26]

I am no specialist or expert of Austrian navy swords, but perhaps the fotos of a navy officer's sword M 1850/71 which has the same type of blade as your sword, may help a little bit. As far as I know the signature "Eisenhauer" is a sign of quality which says that with this blade you can cut an iron nail without any damage to the edge.
corrado26

[Drabant1701]

Originally Posted by corrado26

I am no specialist or expert of Austrian navy swords, but perhaps the fotos of a navy officer's sword M 1850/71 which has the same type of blade as your sword, may help a little bit. As far as I know the signature "Eisenhauer" is a sign of quality which says that with this blade you can cut an iron nail without any damage to the edge.
corrado26

Thanks for the information corrado26. I wont be cutting nails any time soon though

[Victrix]

I’m not too familiar with naval swords either, but this sword looks good quality. These links may be of interest:

http://www.swordforum.com/forums/sho...ng-Naval-Sword

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12450

Congratulations!

[corrado26]

The sword in question is an Austrian one, the sword shown in the first link however is a French one, a small, but fine dfference.
corrado26

[Victrix]

Originally Posted by corrado26

The sword in question is an Austrian one, the sword shown in the first link however is a French one, a small, but fine dfference.
corrado26

I know it’s a French sword but if you look through the link again more carefully you will find that it’s an Eisenhauer and Damastahl blade (i.e. German) like the Austro-Hungarian sword discussed in this post. I thought it might be of interest to Drabant.

[Drabant1701]

Originally Posted by Victrix

I know it’s a French sword but if you look through the link again more carefully you will find that it’s an Eisenhauer and Damastahl blade (i.e. German) like the Austro-Hungarian sword discussed in this post. I thought it might be of interest to Drabant.

It was of interest to me, thanks. Seeing the french sword with the german blade made me remember that there is a swedish saber m/1859 that can some times found with damascus steel blades. Those blades often marked Eisenhauer, Damaststahl. While looking for such a sword I found somthing interesting on this link:

https://digitaltmuseum.se/011024401198/sabel-m-1859

The sword in this link actually has the marks in swedish. It says "Jernhuggare" and "Stål Damast". The literal translaten of "jernhuggare" to english is "iron cutter. The blade is made in germany, so at somepoint someone had to translate the meaning of Eisenhauer to swedish. It has the swedish king Carl XVs monogram and he was king between 1859 and 1872, so the sword would be from between those years.

[Victrix]

Originally Posted by Drabant1701

It was of interest to me, thanks. Seeing the french sword with the german blade made me remember that there is a swedish saber m/1859 that can some times found with damascus steel blades. Those blades often marked Eisenhauer, Damaststahl. While looking for such a sword I found somthing interesting on this link:

https://digitaltmuseum.se/011024401198/sabel-m-1859

The sword in this link actually has the marks in swedish. It says "Jernhuggare" and "Stål Damast". The literal translaten of "jernhuggare" to english is "iron cutter. The blade is made in germany, so at somepoint someone had to translate the meaning of Eisenhauer to swedish. It has the swedish king Carl XVs monogram and he was king between 1959 and 1972, so the sword would be from between those years.

I never saw it written in Swedish before. Solingen was obviously quite customer orientated. You clearly mean that the sword must be from the reign of Carl XV between 1859 and 1872.

Wagner’s Cut & Thrust Weapons has an Austrian naval officer’s sabre, model 1862 on p.449. It looks similar to your beautiful sabre but the blade is etched with the Habsburg double-headed eagle on one side and a crown and anchor on the other.