United States. A Model 1852 Naval Officer’s Dress Sword Newly Listed old style gilt collar tab

old style gilt collar tab cypher for shunters (Rangierer) (12850S)

the reverse presenting EESTI VABARIIK 3 MARKA 1926

and showing evidence of period use

The cockade is a standard political tri-colour cockade with a black enameled swastika in the center

both set on a 65 mm-long magnetic metal bar with a horizontal pinback and red wool twill reverse liner

United States. A Model 1852 Naval Officer’s Dress Sword Newly Listed old style gilt collar tabA United States Navy Officers dress sword, measuring 90 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 74 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and with a fuller running approximately three quarters of the length of each side. Intricate acid etched designs are applied to both sides, with the obverse bearing a central oval flanked by arabesques (presumably for the addition of owner initials or monograms),