Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dagger, Second Pattern, By Carl Eickhorn GTRexclude (NSDAP Gautag Wien badge)

(NSDAP Gautag Wien badge)

measuring 92 mm (w) x 126

located at the upper left breast flap and opening with a reinforced horizontal slit

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Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dagger, Second Pattern, By Carl Eickhorn GTRexclude (NSDAP Gautag Wien badge)(Luftwaffe Offiziersdolch). A well preserved, second pattern Luftwaffe Officers dagger, measuring 430 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 265 mm long polished magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and semi sharpened edges. The blade presents plain with the exception of a makers mark on the reverse ricasso of ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms classic logo of a squirrel clutching a sword. It sits