H023696 COMBAT ENGINEER'S FIELD SAW & SCABBARD. (Sage mit Scheide)

BACKGROUND: Combat Pionier personnel, (Engineers), were issued assorted specialized equipment designed to meet their needs as the spearhead troops tasked with destroying enemy obstacles and creating forward defensive positions for their own troops in the face of the enemy. Besides the engineer’s assault packs, long handle shovels, picks and axes was a special cross cut field saw.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Roughly, 58cm long combat engineers saw with a roughly, 42cm long, drop forged steel blade with forty eight extended, sharpened cross cut teeth. Blade is nicely maker marked and dated for 1938. The blade has a riveted on, diagonally angled, black painted, cut out, tooled steel, oval handle with two piece natural wooden grips secured in place by three counter sunk screw headed bolts with counter sunk securing nuts. The saw comes complete with its original blackened leather construction scabbard with steel fittings. The middle of the scabbard has the addition of a stitched on, extended, horizontal, blackened leather loop designed to be secured around the K98 bayonet. The top edge of the scabbard has an inserted steel throat secured in place by two screws to both the obverse and the reverse. The scabbard is well marked and dated for 1938. Scarce Combat Engineer’s equipment.

GRADE ****1/4                             PRICE $695.00

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