SA High Leader

[Ron Weinand]

Here is my SA High Leader from a motel buy in a small NE MO town MANY years ago. The veteran was a lawyer who arrested Nazis after the war and this was the ONLY souvineer he brought home (a good choice for me)

[ValhallaMilitaria]

What a work of art! not too many of those around.

[TP Alexander]

Yuppers

Yuppers!!
Bee-you-ti-full!!!
I just love that golden squirrel!!

[rajko84]

[Mac 66]

Ron, you have a Gold Mine of Daggers , Love this High Leader SA

[Colorado]

Great piece Ron. Late production too. Were this a standard blade, it would have had M7/66 on it. Do you think it was company policy or party regulations that dictated Damascus blades would have a company maker mark?

One more question: Do you store the dagger inside or outside the scabbard?

[Ron Weinand]

I keep all my NICE blades out of the scabbard and in a double cloth bag made of anti-tarnish silver cloth that my wife makes for me (garding her future after I am gone-she is president of Weinand Militaria, Inc.) I also keep them In the Bank where I have monitored the humidity (it is lower than in my house) for protection. This makes looking at them harder, but I feel much safer since my robbery in 1995 (prior to an alarm system and we caught them and got everything back by a fluke-I was lucky but even then the better pieces were in the bank).

[Paul V]

SA High leader

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You have shown so many super edge weapons that I had to
comment and say thanks for sharing with collectors.

Hope others will take notice and comment on the many threads
you have shared in this section!

Many will never see a lifetimes collecting of edge weapons and the condition that so many of these pieces are in!

I was starting to wonder if many of the edgeweapons shown now a days
had to start life in a old tool box! With bricks on top!

PVON
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[Ron Weinand]

Thanks so much for your nice comments Paul. Years of work and, living in no-where-ville, not having too many people who collect drop bye has limited my showing the collection. Now, with the reason for the German's visit, I was able to assermble it all in one place and having my wife and my girl Friday Dennise present to be able to photograph it (although not qaulity enough for book work), I was able to post some here. I have MANY more and will show some of them over the next few weeks.
My SAs, Army, Luftwaffe and some navy daggers are all presentations. I don't have any plane types in the collection now. Many are named and a few to Knight's Cross Winners, but that is for another day.
Ron

[Norman Hamilton]

Wonderful. I'm looking forward to seeing more....

[JohnZ]

Ron:

That is one Beautiful Eickhorn.

John

[rob NL]

I just love honor stuff.