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

opening with a sliding latch to reveal a dark blue doeskin bed perforated with two horizontal slits for the accommodation of the decorations’ ribbons

He also performed compulsory Reich Labour Service (RAD) duties between 1 October 1936 and 24 March 1937

the underside of the other in hessian fabric (burlap)

1946 to September 30

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac opening with a sliding latch(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