Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the underside of the other

the underside of the other in hessian fabric (burlap)

Instituted in25 December 1881

1946 to September 30

100 mm x 212 mm

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the underside of the other(Heer Dolch fr Offizier mit Gehnge). A well preserved Heer Officers dress dagger, measuring 39. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. The blade is unmarked and sits securely within a nickel silver crossguard, the obverse of which bears a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with an intact brown leather buffer pad