A 2Nd Pattern Luftwaffe Dagger By Carl Eickhorn, Solingen GTRexclude low level bombing and rocket

low level bombing and rocket attacks was such that it resulted in the destruction of upwards of fifty thousand tons of enemy merchant shipping

“Arriba España” on the plaque

London Gazette 19 August 1916

arriving in Halifax on the 13th

A Mint German Police Long Service Award - In gilded tombac

A 2Nd Pattern Luftwaffe Dagger By Carl Eickhorn, Solingen GTRexclude low level bombing and rocketThis dagger features a 255 mm nickel plated steel blade, magnetic, with dull edges and having a semi sharp tip. The blade's reverse ricasso is maker marked Carl Eickhorn, Solingen with the company's squirrel insignia (the version of the insignia used between 1935 and 1941). It retains its crossgraining, in addition to scratches overall, common to extraction and return to the scabbard, natural shine, with scattered surface wear and pitting, very fine.