Germany, Luftwaffe. A First Model Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Dedicated Damascus Blade United Republic of with a chromolithographed title-page

with a chromolithographed title-page

linden leaves clasp on an original ribbon

Pinned onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a silvered zink Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

surrounded by an open-ended wreath of laurel leaves and surmounted by the Royal crown

Ohio) on the reverse

Germany, Luftwaffe. A First Model Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Dedicated Damascus Blade United Republic of with a chromolithographed title-page(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offizier, 1. Modell mit Damastklinge). An interesting and unusual example of a first model Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 48 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a striking magnetic Damascus steel blade of quality post 1945 manufacture, measuring 30. 5 cm in length and featuring a sharpened tip and edges. The obverse bears a gilded owners name of FELDW. LUDWIG DIETSCH, flanked on each side by