Germany, Luftwaffe. A Second Pattern Officer’s Dagger Auction Archive and some possibly in Italy

and some possibly in Italy

1936 and suppressed in 1945

they were also known as the “Totenkopfhusaren” (death’s head hussars)

Kruppmanufactured a total of 24

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Second Pattern Officer’s Dagger Auction Archive and some possibly in Italy(Luftwaffe Offiziersdolch). A second pattern Luftwaffe Officers dagger, measuring 430 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 260 mm long polished magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. Fully unmarked, the blade sits securely within a nickel plated alloy upper crossguard, the obverse of which presents as a finely detailed Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika. It transitions into a multi piece hilt