Sa presentation dagger sportschule fÜrth

[bigred1ne]

Submitted for your comments, the only one of its kind I have ever seen. Condition is not good; looks like kids used it as a playtoy. If it’s a fake, I would have expected to see others just like it. Prior to being an SS training school, Fürth was run by the SA.

I have 11 photos I’ll try to post.

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Eickhorn

Trademark

[Bob Hritz]

Original and nice! I would love to have this in my collection!

Bob Hritz

[R.R.]

Seems to me a fantasy piece artificialy aged, blade's condition don't match grip's appearence. It looks like a modified Rohm blade to me, I don't understand why group mark was cruddely removed from crossguard.

[Jeff Nichols]

Nothing wrong with this one. Classic Eichorn etching! Very Nice!

[bigred1ne]

Thanks for your assistance; you folks make life a lot easier in trying to sort out the real stuff from the repros.

The damage appears to have been done from scraping it on something (the lines match up); the tip is slightly bent; makes me think that the brain trust playing with it tried to get it to stick in a tree by throwing it really, really hard!

[Serge M.]

I agree with R.R. in as far as I see evidence of it being a reworked blade, both sides, from probably a Ground Rohm.
However it looks to be a factory done rework. Eickhorn etch panels and lettering as mentioned earlier.

Crossguard filing seems intentional and obviously crude but IMO an original dagger.

-wagner-

[bigred1ne]

If this was reworked, any idea why this is the only kind of its type anyone has seen? Seems like an expensive investment.

[lakesidetrader]

Wow bigred that is a rare dagger you have there. I see no problems with it but of course I don't have it in hand and I'm always learning. It is not a Rohm dagger reworked from what I see. It is a factory etched presentation piece. The blade someone has tried to clean up, but from what I see there this is original and quite right.