Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction since it is the first

since it is the first British medal to be instituted and awarded using a dead monarch's cypher or effigy

Signatures of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

located near Danzig

the cover with a black Wehrmacht-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika and an inscription of “DEUTSCHES REICH SOLDBUCH”

small edge bumps

Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction since it is the firstAn unusual Ottoman Navy Officers dress sword, measuring 91 cm in total length. It features a 78 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a gentle curvature and with a narrow fuller running the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. Both the tip and lower edge retain their factory original sharpening. The blade bears double sided acid etched imagery consisting of central Ottoman crescents surrounding five pointed