Luftwaffe dagger Fur Besondere Tapferkeit im Luftkampf

[34pontifical]

Hello,

I want to buy this Luftwaffe dagger M37 and I want to know if it is good or fake. But I have just these fotos.

Thank you for your help.

Best Regards

34pontifical

[Reichsword]

IMO - it's a 1970's well made fake, these were quiet prevalent, back then.

[34pontifical]

Thank you for this first review

[Schlange]

I'd like to see some closer photos of dagger crossguard, grip and pommel.
Damascus blades are too "exotic" for my taste and knowledge.
Portepee looks like original.

Schlange

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

[Barry Brown]

The blade is a well known post war production circa 1970's, by the late Robert Kurten. Kurten had been at one time an apprentice of Damast master Paul Mueller, and was later master of his own postwar damast forge.

[Lampwick]

The blade is a well known post war production circa 1970's, by the late Robert Kurten. Kurten had been at one time an apprentice of Damast master Paul Mueller, and was later master of his own postwar damast forge.

So, in itself, quite a collectable item?

[monty]

re blades

So, in itself, quite a collectable item?

All the ones I have seen have been acid etch damast and there are a few out there so the answer is probably no.

[monty]

re these blades

What Barry says above is correct by the way.

[11C]

I actually owned a very similar one in 1982......... My first reality check from a crooked dealer.........Tom Shutt.

[34pontifical]

Thank you all for your comments

Best Regards

34pontifical

[Ron Weinand]

Bad blade for sure.

[Tiger 1]

The blade is a well known post war production circa 1970's, by the late Robert Kurten. Kurten had been at one time an apprentice of Damast master Paul Mueller, and was later master of his own postwar damast forge.

Barry...

Look a bit closer . This blade is not damascus but a carbon steel blade etched to look like damascus. It only has the surface and the single depth etch of 'artificial danascus' and not the multilayer of genuine damascus.
This is not an example of Kurten's postwar genuine damascus work.

Tony

[Barry Brown]

Barry...

Look a bit closer . This blade is not damascus but a carbon steel blade etched to look like damascus. It only has the surface and the single depth etch of 'artificial danascus' and not the multilayer of genuine damascus.
This is not an example of Kurten's postwar genuine damascus work.

Tony

Tony: You are right, not true damas steel. I have seen the Besonder Tapferkeit... dedication on Kurten's blades in the past and so jumped in. It is still a postwar blade, imo.

regards
Barry