Germany, Kriegsmarine. A First Pattern Officer’s Dress Dagger Newly Listed with a silvered laurel wreath

with a silvered laurel wreath set over the arms

the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika

79 mm (w) x 19

the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A First Pattern Officer’s Dress Dagger Newly Listed with a silvered laurel wreath(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offizier, 1. Modell). A very well preserved first pattern Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 40. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. Dual narrow fullers extend approximately two thirds of the length of each side of the blade. Unmarked, it sits securely within a gilded bronze crossguard, bearing double sided