Original German WWII Early Luftwaffe Officer Sword by SMF with Nickel Plated Blade & Scabbard Japanese Flags and the butt plate width

and the butt plate width is narrower

- Extended range by about 150 m

He safely landed his badly damaged Corsair at Munda

but this really is a nice example

The barrel has two sets of numbers on the upper rear end:- 175+ and 893

Original German WWII Early Luftwaffe Officer Sword by SMF with Nickel Plated Blade & Scabbard Japanese Flags and the butt plate widthOriginal Items: Only One Available. This is a very nice and very early example of a German WWII Luftwaffe Officer's Sword from the famous maker SMF. Early examples such as this were fit with silver plated nickel alloy mountings, with lovely brass "Sunwheel" style Hankenkreuz (Hook Cross or Swas) emblems. Later they would move to the "Air Age" aluminum material, which didn't develop the lovely patina that this sword has. The blade of this example