Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger Auction better than very fine condition

better than very fine condition with light scuffing of the leather cover

4mm(w) x 54

108 mm (w) x 45 mm (h)

on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a trapezoidal bronze backplate and horizontal pinback

these were to soldiers who had received a Certificate of Merit for gallantry which

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger Auction better than very fine condition(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