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

(Heer Dolch für Offizier mit Gehänge). A well-preserved Heer Officer’s 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 covering the seam. The handle grip is composed of a single piece of ribbed light brown celluloid, and the dagger is completed with a flattened and rounded pommel bearing raised oak leaves around the outer circumference, screwing in to maintain the dagger’s structural integrity. Wrapped around the crossguard and pommel is a matching portepee, consisting of a stylized silver aluminum wire acorn suspended from a strap of identical construction. It is accompanied by its original scabbard, constructed of a pebbled magnetic metal shaft. The upper third of the shaft has two integral oak leaf bands with loops for the accommodation of a hanger. A functional spring clip in the throat firmly holds the dagger in place during storage. Minor issues consistent with age and wear are evident, and include some pitting and running marks to the blade, patination of the nickel-silver fixtures, and tarnishing of the scabbard. It remains in a near extremely fine condition.

Also accompanying the dagger is a matching hanger, consisting of a silvered zink alloy loop with two additional loops emanating from the lower edge. Descending from the loops are two field-grey doeskin straps topped by silver aluminum wire tresses. Each strap is adjusted with a functional silvered zink buckle, and completes with functional silvered zink spring clips to lock onto the scabbard’s loops. Loss of finish is visible to the zink fixtures, but the hanger remains in a near extremely fine condition.