German Cavalry Degen Model 1889 sword scabbard. Blued sheet steel scabbard with a single loose hanger ring and 'D' loop mounted on a band 80 mm from the throat. Another reinforcing band is fitted 270 ...

Imperial German Model 1889 Cavalry sword. The hilt has a sheet steel guard with the heraldic eagle of Prussia as the cartouche badge. It has a brown bakelite grip having two rivets holding it to the ...

The cavalry were moving up to cross the German lines in the direction of Cambrai many hours, indeed before them, and there was a sense of open fighting as opposed to years of underground warfare ...