FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR NCO SWORD DUG ON THE 1870 BATTLEFIELD OF WORTH – UNIT MARKED

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Item is a Prussian NCO sword in good relic condition.

Overall the sword meas. approx. 22.50 inches. The rusted blade is full length and meas. 17.50 inches. Blade does exhibit some minor loss along the true edge. Blade is rusted throughout.

Hilt is heavy cast brass with a bird head shaped pommel. Brass is in excellent condition. “S” shaped guard is present with regimental markings identifying the sword as belonging to the 87th Regiment.

Item has the diggers tag that reads “BATTLE OF WORTH 6 AUG. 1870. NIEDERWALD LOCATION. PRUSSIAN NCO SWORD MARKED TO 87 REGIMENT.”

The Battle of Wörth, also known as the Battle of Reichshoffen or as the Battle of Frœschwiller, refers to the second battle of Wörth, which took place on 6 August 1870 in the opening stages of the Franco-Prussian War (the first Battle of Wörth occurred on 23 December 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars). In the second battle, troops from Germany commanded by Crown Prince Frederick William and directed by his chief of staff, General Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, defeated the French under Marshal MacMahon near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River, 6.2 mi north of Haguenau. The victorious Germans suffered a loss of 10,556 killed, wounded, and captured while the French lost 15,096 men.

This relic was dug by a resident of Carlisle, Pennsylvania while stationed in Europe with the US Army in the 1990’s.  [ad] [ph:L]

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