Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger Hold Lieutenant-Colonel James Murphy

Lieutenant-Colonel James Murphy

In pressed gold painted leather

topped by initials “E

appointed 30th Sept

but shortly after leaving with the second

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger Hold Lieutenant-Colonel James Murphy(Heer Offiziers Dolch mit Gehnge). A well preserved Heer Officers dress dagger, measuring 40 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. Unmarked, the blade sits securely within a nickel plated alloy crossguard, the obverse of which bears a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with the seam covered by an intact black leather