Asked to check this out and the owner said he would take $50.00 for it... 3 weeks later my I forgot remembered, I go back and it is still there and the owner said he would still take $50.00 for it....

$50.00? This hunting sword is not expensive enough unlike most swords on sale.

Very nice for the money. Is the blade marked in any way? Fairly recent in the grand scheme of things (likely mid 20th century).

Nice piece of stag and fittings on a bayonet blade.

Cheers

GC

Well, I wouldn't call it a sword as it looks more like a long dagger in length at most to me: So maybe a hunting dagger with a 12" to 15" blade according to the proportions of handle to blade ?

The price sounds rather cheap if it's a real antique ? ( Too good to be true ? ) It might be a picture of a real antique and maybe the same dagger being sold for $50 to many different people sending money and it never shipped ????

Now, this is just speculation and maybe being a bit sceptical/paranoid, unless it's a proven reliable vendor ?

Could also be a modern reproduction somewhat artificially aged ? ( If there is more than one for sale maybe a batch of fakes ? )

If the seller is describing it as being a sword he may not even know what he is talking about at best, or very sloppy with the description ?

I could be completely wrong but it gets my " spidy senses tingling " ;) :lol:

It almost looks like a re-ground bayonet blade. Hmm.

If you are not interested in it, I will pay you $75 for it! :D

One might consider terminology of these a grey area but it is a hirshfanger, literally deer catcher, a hunting knife/dagger.

""Hirschfänger" sind Blankwaffen/kalte Waffen, die mit dem Aufkommen von Schusswaffen im 17. Jahrhundert das Schwert als Stichwaffe zum Abfangen von großem Wild wie Hirsch oder Sau abgelöst haben. Zunächst wurden sie vom Landesherrn und Adel getragen, denen alleine das Jagdrecht auf dieses Wild zustand. Später führten Jäger und Forstbeamte Hirschfänger als Seitenwaffe zur Jagduniform. Heute werden Hirschfänger meist zu repräsentativen Zwecken und in Zusammenhang mit jagdlichem Brauchtum genutzt."

English
"Deer catcher" are edged weapons / cold weapons, which have replaced the sword with the advent of firearms in the 17th century as a key weapon to catch large game such as deer or boar. First, they were carried by the sovereign and the nobility, which stood alone on this wild hunting rights to. Later, hunters and forestry officials led cutlass page weapon hunting uniform. Today, hanger are used mostly for representative purposes and in connection with jagdlichem traditions.

http://www.hubertus-solingen.com/hirschfaenger.html

See no 8717 in this 1911 catalog

Cheers

GC

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Solinger Hirschfänger aus einem Versandkatalog: August Stukenbrok, 1911