Original WWII German Army (Heer) OFFICER’S DAGGER By F.W. Holler Solingen (Heer Offizierdolch) Certified.

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Original WWII German Army (Heer) OFFICER’S DAGGER. (Heer Offizierdolch)  Certified. The dagger features a roughly, 26cm long, drop forged steel construction, nickel/silver plated, stiletto style blade with a flat central ridge and a full length, including the hilt, of roughly, 38cm. Nice clean blade maker marked to F.W. Holler Solingen. The original brown leather washer is still intact. The dagger has a cast alloy, crossguard, ferrule, and pommel. The obverse crossguard features the embossed, army style national eagle with outstretched wings, clutching a wreathed, canted swastika in its talons and a plain reverse. The ferrule and pommel both feature embossed repeating oak-leaf patterns. The dagger has a molded, dark /orange, celluloid grip with the correct, diagonally angled ribbing some slight discoloring and crack at the bottom (see photos). The dagger comes with its original, tooled, magnetic sheet metal construction scabbard with a random pebbled pattern to both the obverse and reverse and smooth side panels. Both of the sweated-on scabbard bands with a repeating, horizontally embossed oak-leaf pattern and the hanger suspension rings are intact. The single, dome headed, throat retaining screw is also intact (see photo). all screws intact. The handle is  a little loose. Nice period used dagger captured by a U.S. Veteran and brought home as a war trophy. Nice used example showing the expected age and wear. 100% Guaranteed to be authentic. Complete museum documentation (COA) Provided. Certified by The Gettysburg Museum of History. The Gettysburg Museum of History does not support or condone Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party and is only offering this as a historic relic. Please see our other items.  Also note when browsing our web site there are several pages of items, at the bottom of the list look for other page numbers. A nice starter dagger with some condition issues (priced accordingly). Typical U.S. Veteran bring back condition. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!

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