Not so usual Alcoso

[saar]

Hello everyone!
I came across this Alcoso Luftwaffe dagger. It has really minty, beautiful blade with a distributor mark.
What bothers me is that all the fittings are WKC and it looks like a generic plated scabbard. The dagger does not look like a part dagger either. Everything fits perfectly and tight and has even nice patina.
I poked around a bit and found two people on this forum that have(had) the same kind of 2nd Luftwaffe dagger - Alcoso with WKC fittings. There is also kind of similar dagger on therupturedduck.com and Tom Kendall has a photo on his website of Alcoso dagger with WKC crossguard. So it seems like OK combination but I'm not sure.
Has anyone seen such a dagger? I mean Alcoso/WKC combo.
Thank you,
Michael

[Ron Weinand]

Sales of fittings between Solingen company firms is well established to have occurred during the period. Many collectors will not accept what they consider the mixing of parts, but it did happen in the period.

[Schlange]

Someone put a blade on the wrong side. (Someone tried to hide the logo?)
ACS logo on the blade is middle period.
Scabbards looks like it was cleaned, but the rest of the dagger is relatively untouched.
Too suspicious facts for my taste.

Schlange

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[Billy G]

Some daggers originally had the blade logo on the obverse, this can be seen on Heer, Luft & even RLB daggers. Very nice to see a distributor marked Luft dagger, we don't see them too often.

[lakesidetrader]

Billy you are 100% right.
Anyone who says different has not purchased from Vet's families.
25% of all those "denazified" Armies are from collectors who tried to turn the blade around and "fix" their daggers...
only to find that's how they were made!

[Craig H]

Beautiful dagger IMO

[saar]

Billy you are 100% right.
Anyone who says different has not purchased from Vet's families.
25% of all those "denazified" Armies are from collectors who tried to turn the blade around and "fix" their daggers...
only to find that's how they were made!

I would have to agree with Billy and Lakesidetrader.
I think the blade on this dagger was meant to be this way because, like I said, everything fits perfectly.
I don't see any reason to 'correct' the blade.

[Wim Vangossum]

Everything seems to fit tight on this dagger. And fittings were indeed sold from one company to another. There exist plenty of paper written evidence of that (see the good old Johnson books)


Regards, Wim