Boker SS. Need to decide this evening on purchase

[STRADALE]

Here is a sound piece of advice, that I have learned, grab as many reference books as you can, study them. They are cheap compared to getting burnt. Tom Wittmanns SS book for $150 bucks, It will save you thousands.

I'm on my 4th (Army) 'Exploring the Dress daggers' book by Wittman, have the 4 volume set. His SS book is the one I was referring to last night when I saw that the runes button & grip looked weird. Recently ordered more reference material. But I should have picked up on the MM from what I've read,,,, studied,,,,, seen here. Guess I need to go back and "study" the SS book again instead of just reading through it.............. You know, you get excited about finding something you've been looking for & get beer goggles

Sharp focus photos is great advise too....

[ValhallaMilitaria]

I know it just seems that of late we are inundated with them here...

They've been around awhile.

[ErichS]

It not unusual to see brown coming through a grip of an SS dagger due to a lot of them were made of fruit wood and were died black.