Need Help! SS dagger with documentation for review

[Anderson]

Dan may have a point, either way misshaped number "1" stamped numerals are not that uncommon. Here's just one example

[Frogprince]

The bayonet looks like it’s fairly normal for a hand stamped marking. It shows that legitimate period hand stampings are reasonably consistent even when on different objects or struck at an angle, or with greater or lesser force. There must have been a mandrel inside the sheet metal scabbard because unsupported it usually gets dented, and they have to take more care than with the solid crossguard. The dagger in the link posted (of the Röhm) is very highly unlikely for being a stamping IMO. It has a medium size bushy squirrel’s tail on the backside of the “5”. And the “1” also looks contrived with that bulbous thing at the end of the one on the right. It's unfortunate that no higher resolution photos were available to look at the numbers more closely. As for stamps getting damaged or breaking that is seen every so often with items for the Wehrmacht and is not common, but also not unknown. Sometimes they ground off the part they did not want and kept on using the stamp to extend its life. Best Regards, Fred