Army dagger for review

[LVAZ]

Hello guys
I need please your opinion on this dagger
thanks a lot, best regards.

[WW2-Collector]

Textbook WKC with pleasing patina

[fdodge]

I like it also. The hangers are also an interesting variant.

[angler]

Untouched a pleasure to behold.

[ajs]

Nice complete WKC Heer portapee, hangers and all!

[Schlange]

Standard 3. type WKC Heer dagger.

Schlange

http://www.mojalbum.com/schlange88/albumi

[Mat J]

Dear Schlange, when you say type 3, are you referring to the cross gaurd? I'm all done "hopefully" collecting heer daggers. I have 4 Eickhorns with all the different maker marks. I will in time hopefully aquire a red "crimson" handled army dagger by Eickhorn some day. (Please be on the lookout for me!!) The reason for my question is that I'm trying to learn my cross gaurds to differenciate original from parts daggers. Its difficult on account of the knot, but it appears this cross gaurd on this beauty has 4 wing sections that I believe we see on the type 4 WKC heer cross gaurds (type 3 has 5) and the beak looks like a little too square. I use the wardaggers.com site as a reference. Again just a question, from past posts by you, seems you really know your stuff, so again by type 3 is that a reference to cross gaurd or does the scabbard come into play as well? For I do know Eickhorn scabbard screws were produced in different locations depending on time of production. Thanks in advance, Mat
PS, or do I need to purchase a reference book?

[WW2-Collector]

Dear Schlange, when you say type 3, are you referring to the cross gaurd? I'm all done "hopefully" collecting heer daggers. I have 4 Eickhorns with all the different maker marks. I will in time hopefully aquire a red "crimson" handled army dagger by Eickhorn some day. (Please be on the lookout for me!!) The reason for my question is that I'm trying to learn my cross gaurds to differenciate original from parts daggers. Its difficult on account of the knot, but it appears this cross gaurd on this beauty has 4 wing sections that I believe we see on the type 4 WKC heer cross gaurds (type 3 has 5) and the beak looks like a little too square. I use the wardaggers.com site as a reference. Again just a question, from past posts by you, seems you really know your stuff, so again by type 3 is that a reference to cross gaurd or does the scabbard come into play as well? For I do know Eickhorn scabbard screws were produced in different locations depending on time of production. Thanks in advance, Mat
PS, or do I need to purchase a reference book?

I also call it a type 3 although WKC has 4 crossguards a new WKC guard was discovered not to long ago which some collectors call the 1.5 dubbed so by the heer collector that discovered it. Bit confusing yes but seasoned heer collectors can go by either 1.5 or 2 for this guard so in turn the crossguard shown in this thread would be either a 3 or 4 respectively also known as the tomahawk head