NVA Paratrooper Combat Knife / Kampfmesser M 1966 / KM66

[Trainer]

Hier ein Karton für 10 Messer:
Auch aus dem Lager Schönebeck/Elbe

[ehrentitle]

On some of the German sites they are going for 200.00 Euro and more. I have a model 2 and 3. That will probably be it unless a good deal comes by.

Dudley, I can't agree more with you, I'd love to have a 3rd model, but the prices have just become too much.

There was one with a box, but with a damaged handle on eGun (www.egun.de) that was advertised for 190 Euro which is about $250. And that's for a damaged knife.

Unfortunately these knives are very much in demand by collectors world-wide, not only militaria collectors but knife and gun collectors as well as NVA veterans.

[ehrentitle]

Here is a box for 10 knives:
From the camp Schönebeck / Elbe

Trainer - Thanks much for the update!

Hier ein Karton für 10 Messer:
Auch aus dem Lager Schönebeck/Elbe

[Mike G.]

I have just the two examples.
The example with the higher SN I acquired in Berlin in Dec of 89. At the time I knew little to nothing of what I was looking at. These daggers were everywhere, and I acquired my example for DM 20.00. I thought they were Russian, so I bought just the one. I should have bought a couple hundred, and would have had I known they were East German.

The second example with the much lower SN I acquired much later, and at a much greater cost. It came boxed, which with a matching SN.

[paul heath]

Members,

Hey Mike me too ! I bought one for next to nothing !!! Box and matching serial numbers ... Number 988. Had I known and had I not been so interested in speding money on Berliner Kindl... I would have bought more too!!

Great great thread !
Paul Heath
I consider myself lucky to have one in the 900s.

[tony james]

my friend bob bought a boxed model 1 serial #774 at a local surplus store 2 years ago for $20 . they had 3 of them and he tried to talk me into buying one.after reading this thread i'm kicking myself.



tony

[Reibert-Austria]

... I believe the NVA required that one be strapped to the top of the reserve parachute.

The GDR cord cutter knife was mounted at the bottom of the reserve chute.

@Trainer:

[ehrentitle]

The GDR cord cutter knife was mounted at the bottom of the reserve chute.

@Trainer:

Really, do you have photos?

[Reibert-Austria]

Really, do you have photos?

The NVA cord cutter knife was mountet at the bottom of the BE-8 reserve chute.

I´m sure, user Trainer has further informations.

[uscob]

The NVA cord cutter knife was mountet at the bottom of the BE-8 reserve chute.

I´m sure, user Trainer has further informations.

On Top. borrowed this Pic

[ehrentitle]

My 1975 Handbuch der Fallschirmjäger shows it worn on top. But I've seen photos where it was worn on the bottom as well.

[TimoJ]

my friend bob bought a boxed model 1 serial #774 at a local surplus store 2 years ago for $20 . they had 3 of them and he tried to talk me into buying one.after reading this thread i'm kicking myself.



tony

Where is this store of which you speak?

[Trainer]

Where is this store of which you speak?

I will take all the knives, no matter which model

[TimoJ]

I will take all the knives, no matter which model

As long as I get one.

When I had the knife (which I paid $18 FOR), I could not find the uniform...
now I have the uniform...you al know the rest

[Reibert-Austria]

Such cord cutter knive´s are pretty collectible !

I do own the last NVA version and some polish versions, (Poland Army marked), also the Nóż wieloczynnościowy wz. 1969

BTW, the first NVA cord cutter knife was a product of Poland, (unmarked, so far as I know).