Is this an Authentic trench knife or a reproduction?

[OSS]

[ATTACH][ATTACH][/ATTACH][/ATTACH]I am trying to see if anyone can tell if this is an actual WW1 German trench knife or a reproduction. Besides the etchings it has no makers mark on it.

[Thanatos]

Gday mate,
Your boot knife is similar to this WW1 original posted some months back.



A good one I would think.

[OSS]

Thanks for the response!

[davejb]

For the life of me I cant see why a German trench knife would be depicting George slaying the Dragon, I think its a real knife but someones added a totally non-sensical etching at some time, but i would'nt have thought this was done during the period

[Thanatos]

It could be a pictorial Interpretation of the Teutonic fable of Beowulf slaying the dragon?
Welcome to the forum OSS.

[cricketchris1944]

I am with Dave good boot knife but the dragon would have been done later probably none german maded.
Not something I have seen before
chris

[Wagriff]

knife=good....etching=post

[packin9]

It looks worth checking into it a bit further OSS. A one of a kind I would imagine. It looks real nice, hold on to it. Ron

[Wagriff]

This identical etching,I remember seeing on tourist knives in the 60's-sometimes with the knight on the blade as this one is and an aluminum grip with an eagle pommel-sometimes not. Absolutely, this is not a war time or military knife. I actually had one of these!

[Battery Command Post]

The picture on the blade HAS to be German, whether it's a post-war tourist item or a genuine trench knife. I'm pretty sure it's a picture of Siegfried slaying the Dragon from the Nibelungenlied.

It really doesn't get much more German than that

Rob