Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, with Hanger, by Carl Eickhorn

(Heer Dolch für Offiziere mit Gehänge). A very well-preserved Heer Officer’s dress dagger, measuring 40 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26 cm-long, nickel-plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. The blade is plain with the exception of a maker’s mark on the reverse ricasso of “ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN”, circumscribing the firm’s classic logo of a squirrel clutching a sword. It sits securely within a nickel-silver upper crossguard, the obverse of which bears a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with the seam covered by an intact black leather buffer pad. The handle grip is composed of a single piece of ribbed light brown celluloid. Completing the dagger is a flattened pommel bearing raised oak leaves around the outer circumference, screwing in to maintain the dagger’s structural integrity. It is accompanied by its period original scabbard, constructed of a pebbled magnetic metal shaft. The upper third of the shaft has two integral oak leaf bands, each with a loop for the accommodation of a hanger. The throat retains a functional spring catch to firmly hold the dagger in place during storage.

It is accompanied by a matching hanger, consisting of a silvered zink loop with two additional loops set into the bottom. Descending from the latter are two field-grey doeskin straps topped by silver aluminum wire tresses. The straps are adjusted with functional silvered zink buckles, and complete with functional silvered zink spring clips. Demonstrating moderate loss of silver finish to the zink fixtures, the hanger is in a near extremely fine condition.