WWI boot/fighting/trench knife and sheath
Article about: Greetings and Howdy Do? I am in search of information on a knife that I recently acquired. It seems to be from WWI. There are no markings at all to be found. Can anyone tell me anything abou
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Re: WWI boot/fighting/trench knife and sheath
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
You have a perfectly original WW1 German private purchase trench knife. These were made in a varity of styles by many different makers, hence the different details to be found. Yours is missing the leather hanger as you suspected.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: WWI boot/fighting/trench knife and sheath
We have a search on the forum..............look up what Ade told you and you can see all kind of examples just like yours
Cheers
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Re: WWI boot/fighting/trench knife and sheath
And there is another thing missing. Between handguard and edge shoud be a small leatherguard to protect the scabbard. For these knifes it is only known that Brothers Dittmar in Heilbronn and Ferdinand Müller in Münster (german towns) produced and sold these knifes.
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Re: WWI boot/fighting/trench knife and sheath
Thanks for all the info. I did a little searching before I posted and found some similar pictures but not a lot of info. I'll do some further searching though, now that I have more of an idea of what I'm looking for. What about a value in it's present condition?
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Re: WWI boot/fighting/trench knife and sheath
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debbi082009
... For these knifes it is only known that Brothers Dittmar in Heilbronn and Ferdinand Müller in Münster (german towns) produced and sold these knifes.
I do not agree !
This knive´s the very "Standard" German fighting-knife of WWI.
Many maker´s in Germany manufactured this pattern Grabenmesser !
In this thread:
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/dagge...h-knife-19571/
I mentioned some of them.
Rgds.,
R.
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