Large german hunting dagger

[dragnet]

Id seen this hunting dagger for sale at a local flee market for some time and today with some haggeling and swaps i managed to get this for myself, i thought it was something thats not going to turn up every day here in south wales, its missing its skining dagger im afraid ut im still well chuffed. Regards Pete.

p.s. could someone perhaps help with a value to this piece, im sure i did fine in the deal but would be interested in members opinions. pm would be fine.

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5...........I pressume the OTTO SOLVEEN is the seller of this item and not the owners name??

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[Saufaenger kid]

You have a very nice forestry hirschfänger made by the firm of Carl Kaiser and Co, the Otto Solveen is the Distributor from the town of Bückburg. Probably dates to around 1890-1910. Looks to be in decent condition, Carl Kaiser were not a prolific maker of hirschfängers,I've sen perhaps a couple dozen or so over the years. Shame about the missing skinning knife but most from this period have lost them. What is very rare is the hanger, these are near impossible to find.

Gary

[evilmike]

A strange looking beast indeed!

[dragnet]

A strange looking beast indeed!

Yes Mike , interesting to say the least but if thinking that there are not many fans here on WAF from the lack of replies, im very happy with my deal and im thinking of keeping this one on my shelf, cheers Pete.