Product Details
ED WUSTHOF, SOLINGEN
A GERMAN ENLISTED MAN'S REICHSARBEITSDIENST (RAD) HEWER,
circa 1938, with heavy hatchet-shaped 9 3/4in. blade etched with the motto 'ARBEIT ADELT' (work enables) and hand engraved 'HP' on the right hand side and the makers mark beneath 'GES GESCH' together with 'RADJ' within a triangle on the left hand side, solid nickel-silver cross-guard and hilt, stag-horn scales and 'eagles-beak' pommel (blade with heavy signs of use and some polished pitting) TOGETHER WITH its original metal scabbard with nickel fittings (some denting and discolouration to chape, painted portion old re-paint with losses)
Estimate £200-300