Looking for help identifying this sword

**Wildshark** · 10-01-2023, 07:14 PM

I’ve been offered this sword by a pensioner trying to raise some funds. I cannot find any info on it anywhere, even on the WKC website. It’s a plain but obviously ceremonial sword, and the hilt is almost identical to the Wilkinson ceremonial sword
that I own (shown in picture for comparison) Anyone able to give me any guidance?

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-01-2023 07:14 PM

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**rbminis** · 10-01-2023, 07:31 PM

It's obviously made by Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie, but you will likely have to post some more, in focus, photos of the guard details.
Ralph.

**Verikauha** · 10-02-2023, 02:48 AM

Pre-ww1 german made, but ordered and used by british. Commercial export.

Germany, or Solingen area, sold their swords all over the europe, to Finland, Russia and South America.
I have Russian shaska with Solingen blade.
Example, Finnish m/1922 officer swords are all German made, over 100 years to this day.

**MAP** · 10-02-2023, 03:40 AM

Move to the correct forum

**Anderson** · 10-02-2023, 09:39 AM

Yes, WKC continued to make various export swords post WW2 and continued to use the earlier marker marks, so this could be a post WW2 sword. The plated finish suggests a dress sword, but we'll wait for those better images.

**Wildshark** · 10-04-2023, 05:33 PM

Hopefully these pics are a bit clearer for guard detail, it’s definitely ceremonial, there is no cutting edge at all

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Some clearer pics below

**AndyB** · 10-04-2023, 06:06 PM

I personally tend to post WW1 trade mark of WKC here.

**Anderson** · 10-05-2023, 08:50 AM

It's a British Pattern 1897 Infantry officer's sword. For dating it's more relevant to see the Royal cypher on the guard.

**Wildshark** · 10-06-2023, 08:23 AM

There’s no cipher or any other identifier on this one. My Wilkinson in the very first picture clearly has the Crown and ER motif, but this sword has nothing of any kind as an igentifier other than the WKC stamp and crest on the blade , bit of a mystery to this newbie to the blade game

**Wildshark** · 10-06-2023, 08:26 AM

I think your earlier comment about it being a post WWII model may be closer to the mark, considering 1) it’s definitely ceremonial, not practical, 2) the pensioner who is selling it received it from her husband who came from a Rhodesian military background I believe, so somewhere from 1960-1980 in service