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Faskinkniv m/1805
Grupp D II. Klingans bredd upptill är 44 mm.Klingan är rak och tveeggad. Upptill är den flack, men 120 mm nedanför fästet får den på bägge sidor en ganska smal skål- slipning och ...
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This pattern name maybe has to be adjusted. In all references it is named M 1805, but in my researches i found documents from the year 1802, where 1000 blades where bought for these faskinknivs. Additional there exist a series of pictures, "Charackteristische Darstellung der vorzüglichsten europäischen Militairs" editet in the years 1802-1804 in Augsburg, Bavaria, so called Augsburger Bilderserie (Augsburg Picture-Series). At one of these pictures are to see the artillery-men wearing this faskinkniv. In a Newspaper from 11.September 1804 I found a request of a reader (collector of these pictures) to the editorial-staff, wich pictures of these series are issued already. The printed answer was, that the picture with the artllery is issued already. I think it is enough documentary evidence to say, that these faskinkniv has to be renamed. I would name it pattern 1802.
By the way, I think I have seen at your page the scabbard for this faskinkniv with the description,
that an old label is glued on it, dated in the year 1804.
Wolfgang Schlösser, June 16, 2016
Wolfgang Schlösser, June 16, 2016
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