Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac wing extensions and swastika in

wing extensions and swastika in a thick yellow embroidery

At the age of 19 he joined the German Imperial Army to become an officer like his father

The heart is of a polished phenolic resin

James Charles Gordon

the exterior featuring a horizontal white cotton band

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac wing extensions and swastika in(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offiziere). A Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 41. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to the tip. Dual narrow fullers run the majority of the length of each side of the blade, which also bears double sided, acid etched imagery consisting of central fouled anchors flanked by arabesque latticework