Germany, Ss. An Allgemeine Ss Officer’s Dress Sword, By Hermann Rath Auction measuring 39 mm (w) x

measuring 39 mm (w) x 56 mm (h)

measuring 53 mm (w) x 10 mm (h)

Clark left for the 25th Infantry Battalion on August 3rd

Footnote: Colonel John Wade Therrell was born on September 10

53 mm long knurled pin

Germany, Ss. An Allgemeine Ss Officer’s Dress Sword, By Hermann Rath Auction measuring 39 mm (w) x(Schutzstaffel Degen fr Offiziere). A rare and very well preserved Allgemeine SS Officers dress sword, measuring 905 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 740 mm long polished magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and unsharpened edges. A fuller runs down the length of each side of the blade, which presents plain with the exception of a makers mark near the reverse ricasso of HERM. RATH, SOLINGEN for the firm of Hermann