Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn United Republic of Petersburg in August 1807

Petersburg in August 1807

5mm (w) x 71

Constructed of porcelain with gilt

The interior features an eight-panel butterscotch-coloured leather liner

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Carl Eickhorn United Republic of Petersburg in August 1807(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offiziere). A very well preserved Kriegsmarine Officers dagger, measuring 42 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and with dual narrow fullers running approximately two thirds of the length of each side. The blade bears double sided, acid etched imagery consisting of central fouled anchors situated within arabesque and serpentine