Original Austro-Hungarian WWI Relic San Martino Model Trench Raiding Club with Broken Shaft - From the Collection of At Arm's Length: Trench Clubs and Knives Author David F. Machnicki Lewis Gun in the background a bandeau

in the background a bandeau with the years "1621" and "1897"

and actually the soldered seam has separated on the lower half of the cross

The Heer Eagle fared a bit worse

Similar to the "B2" and "42" marked knives

Original Austro-Hungarian WWI Relic San Martino Model Trench Raiding Club with Broken Shaft - From the Collection of At Arm's Length: Trench Clubs and Knives Author David F. Machnicki Lewis Gun in the background a bandeauOriginal Item: One of a Kind. Purchased directly from David F. Machnicki, author of the standard reference At Arm's Length: Trench Clubs and Knives (Vol. I), this is an outstanding battlefield relic example of an Austro Hungarian World War I trench club of the well known San Martino pattern. Named after Mount San Martino, where during the summer of 1916 the Italian Army captured and documented these clubs from Austro Hungarian forces, this has become