Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Carl Eickhorn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic operation across the Kuril Islands

operation across the Kuril Islands

September 1937

the Order of the Red Star

the stamp numbered "394"

overlaid by a central white cotton shield bearing a machine-embroidered black Kyffhäusder Monument above an Imperial German tri-colour flag

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Carl Eickhorn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic operation across the Kuril Islands(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere, 1. Form). A first pattern Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 48. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 31 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the edges and tip. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of CARL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms classic squirrel logo, in a pattern appropriately used by the company