Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie

(Heer Offiziers-Dolch). A well-preserved Heer Officer’s dress dagger, measuring 40 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 maker marked on the reverse ricasso with the logo of Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie, Solingen. Otherwise unmarked, it sits securely within a silvered zink alloy crossguard, bearing a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika on the obverse, with the seam covered by an intact brown leather buffer pad. The handle grip is composed of a single piece of ribbed pale orange celluloid, while the dagger completes with a flattened pommel which bears raised oak leaves around the outer circumference. 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. The dagger 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. MI