Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dagger, Ii Pattern, Funeral Variant, By Ernst Pack & Söhne Auction carefully hand-painted centrepiece

carefully hand-painted centrepiece

5 cm-deep turnback cuffs

1942 he received the Iron Cross 2nd Class

25/CAN:INF:)

The decoration itself was instituted in 1951

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dagger, Ii Pattern, Funeral Variant, By Ernst Pack & Söhne Auction carefully hand-painted centrepiece(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere mit Portepee). An extremely well preserved second pattern Luftwaffe Officers dagger, measuring 425 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 260 mm long magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and unsharpened edges. The blade presents plain with the exception of a makers mark near the reverse ricasso in the form of a late pattern inscription of ERNST PACK & SHNE, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the