Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn Archive set within a silver-grey soutache

set within a silver-grey soutache

PALESTINE 1945-48 (14748381 SIGMN

52 mm (w) x 33

the bombers all unfortunately being lost

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn Archive set within a silver-grey soutache(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offiziere). A well preserved Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 42 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and with dual narrow fullers running approximately two thirds of the length of each side. Acid etched designs have been applied to both sides, and consist of central fouled anchors flanked by serpentine and arabesque