I have been looking for this dagger for quite some time and finally found one at my first show of shows along with two other army’s I will be posting in the near future. This is an initial production Horster with the first type guard. The hilt is brass based with a killer crossguard and hand worked pommel. The blade is a tapered tang with the early large maker mark. Scabbard sports two dome head screws and some hand work as well. Very hard to find variation I found this dagger Thursday in a case with a bunch of other daggers piled up on top of it.
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