Description
Offered without the steel throat top mount for you to retrofit to your original
The mle 1897 was a revolutionary breech-loading artillery piece that combined a Nordenfelt eccentric screw breech
The scabbard is lovely
the right-hand bolt pulls the spent case out of the chamber and the left-hand bolt pushes a new round home
so an intact casing has been added
Original German Pre-WWII RAD Labor Corps Enlisted Mans Hewer by Carl Eickhorn with Scabbard British Ordnance Offered without the steel throatOriginal Item: Only One Available: This German Enlisted Man's RAD Hewer is in very nice condition, with very nice plated steel mounts on the scabbard. The crossguard has a fine, curled quillon, and it appears as though some of the the original darkening is in the grooves of the quillon. The nickel plating on the hilt has been well maintained and is still bright, showing just a bit of oxidation speckling where it has worn through. There are a few areas