Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, with Hanger, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 13 Schulterklappen)

13 Schulterklappen)

The left side of the cap bears a Reichspost insignia consisting of a dark blue trapezoidal cotton backer overlaid by a machine-embroidered silver-grey Reichspost eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

(Stecknadel)

with age-appropriate material fatigue and soiling evident

demonstrating minor loosening of the structure

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, with Hanger, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 13 Schulterklappen)(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere mit Gehnge). A well preserved Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 43 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the edges and tip, and which retains much of its original cross grain. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms classic