Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction the cover with a black

the cover with a black Wehrmacht-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika and an inscription of “DEUTSCHES REICH SOLDBUCH”

suspended from a black rayon strap flanked on each side by machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire tresses around a central red threaded band

small edge bumps

set above a trapezoidal plaque bearing a raised date of “1939” on a pebbled background

with white rayon lined inside cover

Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction the cover with a blackAn unusual Ottoman Navy Officers dress sword, measuring 91 cm in total length. It features a 78 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a gentle curvature and with a narrow fuller running the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. Both the tip and lower edge retain their factory original sharpening. The blade bears double sided acid etched imagery consisting of central Ottoman crescents surrounding five pointed