Original Early Prussian NCO Sidearm circa 1740 with Later Family Document Dated 1795 German Navy - Kreigsmarine His real-life adventures read like

His real-life adventures read like a combination of Sir Harry Flashman and of Richard Sharpe of Sharpe’s Rifles

The rifle stock has definitely been sanded down

The original chin strap is present

put up fanatical resistance

before larger commands were established directly under the control of the government-in-exile

Original Early Prussian NCO Sidearm circa 1740 with Later Family Document Dated 1795 German Navy - Kreigsmarine His real-life adventures read likeOriginal Items: One of a Kind Set. This came to us from a German family who insisted that their ancestor had been initially a trooper and later an N. C. O., in King FREDERICK the GREAT'S army starting in the 1750's or 1760's and retiring only after many years service, by then in the service of Frederick the Great's successor, his nephew, KING FREDERICK WILHELM II of Prussia who reigned until 1797. The sidearm, a brass hilted short sword, almost a