Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn Auction (Gürtelschnalle für Politische Leiter)

(Gürtelschnalle für Politische Leiter)

two insets featuring minute and second clocks

awarded the Iron Cross on the 10th of August

Our Military Cross bearing comrade Reserve Captain Carl Schmidt (ret

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn Auction (Gürtelschnalle für Politische Leiter)(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 which retains factory original sharpening to the tip. Dual narrow fullers run the majority of the length of each side of the blade, which also bears double sided, acid etched imagery consisting of central fouled anchors flanked by arabesque