Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Hans Kolping Archive Three Award Eastern Front Stickpin

Three Award Eastern Front Stickpin - Iron Cross 1st Class

on a cotton armband

a highly decorated veteran of the Afrika Korps and Hermann Göring Division who received the Knight’s Cross for meritorious actions at the Second Battle of El Alamein

5 mm rosette with vertical pinback)

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Hans Kolping Archive Three Award Eastern Front Stickpin(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offizier). 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 with a sharpened tip and edges. The blade bears double sided, acid etched designs, with the obverse displaying a central Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, flanked by arabesque designs, while the reverse has plain arabesque