Germany, HJ. A Member’s Knife, Transitional Example, by Arthur Schüttelhöfer Republic of with a celluloid button

with a celluloid button

on top of a mobile swastika and within a cog wheel

at the age of 23

horizontal pinback (previously replaced)

Germany, HJ. A Member’s Knife, Transitional Example, by Arthur Schüttelhöfer Republic of with a celluloid button(HJ Fahrtenmesser). An HJ members knife, measuring 26 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains some factory original sharpening to both the tip and lower edge. Acid etched onto the obverse of the blade is an inscription of BLUT UND EHRE! (BLOOD AND HONOUR!). The reverse bears a makers mark of A. SCHTTELHFER, SOLINGEN WALD for the firm of Arthur Schttelhfer, flanked