Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie Archive Italian coat-of-arms with swirling ribbon

Italian coat-of-arms with swirling ribbon banners below

constructed of a zink base

one depicting AH on review of SA

When the First World War began in August 1914

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie Archive Italian coat-of-arms with swirling ribbon(Heer Offiziers Dolch). A well preserved Heer Officers dress dagger, measuring 40 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 is maker marked on the reverse ricasso with the logo of Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie, Solingen. Otherwise unmarked, it sits securely within a silvered zink alloy crossguard, bearing a raised Wehrmacht eagle