Officer's award saber, Free City of Gdansk, 1935

saber length 927 mm, blade length 786 mm, saber weight 740 g

Hand closed, brass frame, gilded. The hilt is straight, cross-edged, with disc-shaped half-tracks. The rear arm curled towards the head, ending in a lion's mouth. In the front part, the arm, bent at a right angle, forms a bail in the shape of a half-sword, attached to a clip under the head. The shaft of black mass, transversely fluted and laced with steel filigree. Long cap with cheekpieces in the shape of a lion's head, framed by a ring at the hilt along with the shaft. The top of the cap riveted with the shaft of the head. The stag, bail, cap, ring and both half-bars decorated with palmetto and oak vicia. The inner half-bar with a plain shield, the outer one with the coat of arms of Gdansk. A polished, nickel-plated steel hilt of negligible curvature, profiled on both sides into a single medial furrow, reaching a long, double-edged feather. The staff is symmetrical. On the inner side of the amphibian, at the level of the pledge and the belly, etched motifs of a panoplia, a shooting shield and a floral thread. Similarly decorated exterior with the inscription: "Dem haftem Schützen der Schützpolizei der Freien Stadt Danzig im Schiessjahr 1935" ("In memory of the shooting competition of the police of the Free City of Danzig in the shooting year 1935"). On the inner threshold, under the cap, a beaten signature: the figure of a knight, the inscription "ANTON WINGEN JR /SOLINGEN".
state of preservation: 5/4+