Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger

(Luftwaffe Offiziers-Dolch mit Gehänge). A well-preserved Luftwaffe Officer’s 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. Unmarked, the blade sits securely within a silvered alloy crossguard, the obverse of which bears a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with the seam covered by an intact brown leather buffer pad. The handle grip is composed of a single piece of ribbed off-white celluloid, with the ribbing retaining a twisted and rolled wire cord. It completes with a rounded pommel which bears double-sided wreathed mobile swastikas, screwing in to maintain the dagger’s structural integrity. Wrapped around the pommel is a matching portepee, consisting of a stylized silver aluminum wire acorn suspended from a strap of identical construction. Minor issues consistent with age and wear are evident, and include some tarnishing and running marks to the blade, loss of finish to the silvered fixtures, and slight material fatigue to the portepee. It remains in a better than very fine condition.

Accompanying the dagger is a matching hanger, consisting of a functional gilded zink alloy spring clip with dual loops emanating from the bottom. Descending from the loops are dark grey doeskin straps topped by dark grey threading, in turn flanked by silver aluminum wire tresses. The straps are adjusted with functional gilded zink buckles, and each culminate in functional gilded spring clips to lock onto the scabbard’s loops. The zink fixtures demonstrate near-total loss of gilt finish, and minor material fatigue is visible to the straps, but the hanger remains in a overall very fine condition.