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Fabulous dagger. If you are going to own just one example of an Army dagger, try to find one with all the characteristics that this one exhibits. Love it !

Kevin,
Now that is an unusual and splendid early army. What a great combination of Weyersburg and Pack collusion. Or at least the craftsman who undertook the enhancing had run out of...

It is a very attractive dagger, the handwork is exceptional. They even went the extra mile to stipple and hand cut the upper rim of the pommel.

This Eick is very late war, a mixture of Generic and Eickhorn parts. Quite scarce in fact with this config, albeit a little undesirable due to the poor construction ( pot metal, unmarked etc ) to an...

Great observations Tom. That grip is certainly an anomaly and most definitely not to order. The white gripped dagger posted by Peter looks like a celluloid grip type that has been exposed to heat or...

It looks like a tapered tang blade matched with an Eickhorn third cross-guard. Not unheard of, but not common either. It may be that the whole blade is a dud.
Not quite sure why anybody would be...

Very rare dagger and fabulous toned grip. I had the pleasure of seeing this one first hand a few years back.
Congrats.

Kevin,
Your point on the white gripped and obviously late produced Holler 3rds is a good one. I think there is every chance that the 4th as we know it, could have been produced either...

The Holler 4th with enhancements?. Certainly not the four that I have owned. The Holler 2nd which is the same Pack 3rd base cross-guard is most definitely extensively enhanced. ( Normally 3 crescent...

"I don’t follow the comment that in 1936 20 plus makers went to the Generic A due to standardization. They went to the generic A/B because they still didn’t make their own fittings in house and...

I managed to find the old Ford Crews post on GDC regarding the Hollers from 2008, which still makes interesting reading. Be warned unless you know your army daggers you are more likely to come out of...

The Holler 4th in many cases comes matched with a Generic style scabbard, the 3rd pattern nearly always has a distinct Holler scabbard. On that basis, if these two are wrong in their production...

Lovely untouched piece. Please do not fall into the trap of chipping that paint off, so rare to find a textbook Klaas that has not had it all removed and being touted as a funeral dagger.
Love it.

Very rare dagger. I will not rehash our conversation Ger, but congratulations on the great photography and to Danny on the acquisition of an outstanding early army dagger.
For the trademark...

cool militaria

What a bonus, it being single digit as well. Knew it would be there somewhere.

Also great to find something else out about a dagger that you have had hanging on the wall for a...

Wow, another absolute beauty. That one certainly deserves its own display case.
What is unusual about this dagger is the trademark position, normally when you get a un-numbered Weyersburg, it will...

When you consider that Weyersburg stopped numbering these early daggers in the 300's serial range, it makes having two, side by side even more astounding. One would be the highlight of most...

For anybody who has not seen this yet. ( BBC News - What should Uruguay do with its Nazi eagle? ).

You would need a reinforced wall to hang this baby. 4 tons and a hell of a lot of history.
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Always loved the Art Deco style design of this eagle. Alcoso were certainly not shy or reserved when it came to breaking the mould, so to speak. saying that, poor Mr ACS died in a ghetto not long...

Interesting piece, the top half of the hilt ( grip & pommel ) are typical of what you see on Voos transitional mid period armies that came with a variety of different cross-guards. I have a Pack 3rd...

Kevin,
If you look closely you might be able to see the remains of another "3". Most of the time it is obliterated when they drilled the hole in the grip. I think the actual number was...

Clauberg dagger - Another erroneous maker mark on another late war dagger. Anybody seeing a pattern here.

"EST" in the maker mark !......classic. :shok_yikes:


Edit: Thanks Larry

This post should be merged with the Klihaso thread for reference purposes. Another erroneous maker mark on another late war dagger. Anybody seeing a pattern here.

"EST" in the maker mark...

Larry,
Klihaso was a correct acronym for Klitterman and Moog, just not sure ( or convinced ) it was ever used on an army dagger. It appears on much of their non-TR steel., mainly razors.

The pebbling to the scabbard shell, the small hanging rings, file marks on the underside of pommel and poor casting, machine cross-grain to the blade, and a maker mark from the imagination!.

Not...