I am highly suspicious of this maker blade and the marriage of the Luftwaffe parts..
There has been some speculation that these 2nd pattern Luft daggers with the crossed key Herder markings were made post war with spare Luftwaffe dagger parts when in actuality the crossed key Herder blades were made for Heer Daggers.
Again, should have never taken this apart, but since my opinion on this is that it is a post war "Frankendagger" that has been put together post-war, there is no harm..
I will defer my knowledge to the more scholarly blade collectors...
But once again I would suggest doing some basic research on the maker, the maker mark and come up with your own conclusions...
Smitty
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