Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Carl Eickhorn Auction Archive in silvered zink and blue

in silvered zink and blue enamels

Luke Knowlton was the first permanent settler of what is now the village of Knowlton

the reverse bearing a central raised depiction of Metz Cathedral

In bronze gilt on die-stamped tin

Instituted in 1927

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Carl Eickhorn Auction Archive in silvered zink and blue(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offiziere). A well preserved Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 42 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. Each side of the blade has dual narrow fullers, as well as finely detailed, acid etched designs consisting of central fouled anchors flanked by arabesque and serpentine imagery. The reverse ricasso also bears