Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Carl Eickhorn GTRexclude Edna Mae Keller

Edna Mae Keller

with rounded ends

Once the children turned ten

inscribed "50 mm Tank-destroying Gun (50 mm PAK 38)" below the image

three small claw feet raise the cup

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Carl Eickhorn GTRexclude Edna Mae Keller(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere, 1. Form). A first pattern Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 48. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 31 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the edges and tip. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of CARL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms classic squirrel logo, in a pattern appropriately used by the company