Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Prussian / Austrian side arm Help with I.D please.

broadaxe · 31st January 2011, 01:27 PM

Hurrah - I found the reference

Frederick Stephens' Fighting Knives, pp. 12-13. I quote: "German Naval Marine Artillery sidearm, pattern 1911. A scarce example of an official modification..."
The letter M probably stands for Marine, check for OS on the ricasso, they stand for Ost See (= East Sea, the Baltic). The original scabbard bear some further naval marks.

31st January 2011, 01:27 PM	#9
broadaxe Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 332	Hurrah - I found the reference Frederick Stephens' Fighting Knives, pp. 12-13. I quote: "German Naval Marine Artillery sidearm, pattern 1911. A scarce example of an official modification..." The letter M probably stands for Marine, check for OS on the ricasso, they stand for Ost See (= East Sea, the Baltic). The original scabbard bear some further naval marks.