My heer dolch,,,is all ok? HÖLLER

[collecter]

The early ones were marked Solingen until 1980 when the Solingen chamber of commerce forced them to stop using "Solingen" and they changed it to Berlin.John

[Degens]

I have nothing to do with the site but you can get a 360 degree view of the dagger by rotating the mouse wheel. Now that is pretty cool.

You would not believe what a pain in the proverbial it was to set that up. 32 individual frames per dagger, constant light and one nudge of the tripod threw the whole set out of alignment. .

Unfortunately the thread starter dagger does look like a repro, one glimpse of either end of the grip or the blade tang will confirm. On a plus point, it is one of the most convincing repro's you will come across........

Hope you can get your money back.

[victorbaule]

Thanks for the information.

The early ones were marked Solingen until 1980 when the Solingen chamber of commerce forced them to stop using "Solingen" and they changed it to Berlin.John

[maximus999]

Thanks for the information.

[butschekantiques]

Thanks everyone for your time. This one will go back to me and I certainly learned something here!

[monty]

Dagger

Two other points of this type fake are the "swirl" effect seen in the scabbard pebbling and the scabbard tip is a separate piece from the rest of the scabbard. Both these can be seen in the photos shown.