Is this a good or bad thing to do?

[Lampwick]

I've started a repair job on the TENO hewer I bought from John recently. Is this a bad thing to do or does it look better?

[Bob Hartman]

While I don't generally advocate the repair of historical objects there are lots of examples where I think reconstruction is preferable to leaving the object alone. I believe this is an example where repair is warranted as long as the dagger is represented as being repaired. And IMO the job has been well done. And remember...this is only my opinion.

[Lampwick]

End result. This is all I'm doing to it.

[Mac 66]

Lampwick,


Not a bad repair on a De-nazified Teno, if you could dress it off a little each side where it joins so its level with the rest of the curve it would look much better imo.



Regards Mac 66.

[Lampwick]

Thanks Mac. I agree that it looks dreadful in the high-def blow up but in hand it's not that noticeable.

[Br. James]

It has long been my position...as I've shared here more times than I can count...NOT to tamper with artifacts other than to gently wash them if necessary. But the piece you present here was apparently "de-Nazified" at some point following the end of WWII, and that casts a whole different light on the situation. In the case of this TENO Hewer, I must agree with Bob Hartman's thoughtful approach to this situation, a situation where the process of "de-Nazification" has removed the historic quality of this piece to the extent that, without the careful repair given to it, this piece would not hold any historic significance at all. Lampwick, you've done a good thing in your repair, but the representation of it being a restored piece is most important in considering future owners of this dagger.

Br. James

[Jenko]

I would probably want to repair this myself if I owned it. however I think the fact its de-nazified is also part of its history. Whoever brought this back after the war was looking for a souvenir, but may not want to have been reminded of the Nazi's and what they stood for, or may simply have been ordered to remove it before taking it home. Either way to a dagger collector its vandalism, to others justified, daggers would not have been considered as valuable collectors items in early post war Britain anyway so the person who removed the swastika would not have considered it hurting its value.
These are just my own personal opinions.

[heers68]

Where the heck did you get that part?? Kevin.

[Lampwick]

Where the heck did you get that part?? Kevin.

It went for the greater good!

[Lampwick]

This was my fall back option.

[Ralph Arndt]

In this case, very good.