Original German WWI - WWII Short Handled Pioneer Wire Cutters with Maker Marking Price_over $990 and is only marked MADE

and is only marked MADE / U

it was adopted in slightly modified form as the Pistole Modell 1908 (Pistole 08) in caliber 9×19mm Parabellum

it apparently bore little resemblance

The rarest of them all is the scarce Wallace Patent entrenching tool patented in 1883 by Nesbit Willoughby Wallace

it has the correct three loops inside

Original German WWI - WWII Short Handled Pioneer Wire Cutters with Maker Marking Price_over $990 and is only marked MADEOriginal Item: Only One Available. The German Pioniertruppen (Pioneer troops) were equipped to accomplish many different tasks. Whether it was laying mines, building (or demolishing) bridges, removing obstacles or constructing earth re enforcments; the Pioneer troops carried the necessary equipment. They had a variety of different tools such as long spades, saws, explosives, detonators, and wire cutters. The Drahtschere (wire cutters) were key during