Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn United Republic of Black Grade - Non- magnetic

Black Grade - Non- magnetic

measuring 76 mm (w) x 17 mm (h)

(Ehrenkreuz des Weltkriegs 1914/1918 mit Etui)

The interior features an eight-panel butterscotch-coloured leather liner

He returned to Canada in May 1942 and would miss the Dieppe Raid on August 19

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn United Republic of Black Grade - Non- magnetic(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offiziere). A very well preserved Kriegsmarine Officers dagger, measuring 42 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and with dual narrow fullers running approximately two thirds of the length of each side. The blade bears double sided, acid etched imagery consisting of central fouled anchors situated within arabesque and serpentine