Machete and scabbard, nd.
Manufactured by Clems and Jung of Solingen.
From Prussian Infantry of the line faschinen messer, 1864.
Marked to the Artillery Munitions Column of the (German) IX Army Corps and with the cypher of King Wilhelm and the date 1871.
Single edged slightly curved blade.
Solid brass s-curved quillons with bird-beak pommel.
The hilt is an identical lighter version.
Marked on blade: ‘C and J’ in cartouche, and ‘G’.
Marked on quillons: ‘108 A 4 92’ and ‘A M IX 2-3’.