Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 26mm (w) x 61

26mm (w) x 61

100 mm x 212 mm

with an acorn adornment

arriving in Boulogne on the 11th

Instituted in25 December 1881

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 26mm (w) x 61(Heer Dolch fr Offizier mit Gehnge). A well preserved Heer Officers dress dagger, measuring 39. 5 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 unmarked and sits securely within a nickel silver crossguard, the obverse of which bears a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with an intact brown leather buffer pad