Here is a picture of my daggers in their storage containers. After I clean and use Ren Wax on my daggers I put them into the bag.
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When I collected daggers -- just have one now -- when it came out of the scabbard, it never went back in. But then again, I like to display them.
Thanks for taking good care of these artifacts, Sarge.
Mike
Collecting mint condition Imperial German uniforms, visor caps, and Pickelhauben.
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When I get back to the states and can setup a display I will, but here in Kosovo I keep everything protected. Besides that my apartment is too small to properly display anything. JimComment
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Jim,
Once you've applied your protective wax, stored in a dark place like a safe, and if you included anti-moisture measures, your daggers should last many lifetimes like that.
I can't do it. I have to display mine. I keep em out of the scabbard for protection. Between former owners and the vets oiling the balde, hence oiling the runner inadvertantly, every time they go back inside the scabbard, they come out with residue on the blade. One of my former dagers had perm runner marks from excessive time spent in the scabbard whith a substance like oil which ate into the blade itself. Pretty much ruined the SA blade for ever. It came in that state and I took whatever measure I could to remove it, but it was to no avail.
Every dagger/sword of mine has multiple layers of museum wax applied to the balde. For the sabers, I use a cleaning pollish that has a silicon preservative in the concoction which also ads a layer of protection. This of course ends up below the wax layer, after i've removed as much of the pollish as humanly possible using a soft rag.Comment
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