Hi
I wonder if you can help me with this fine quality Kriegsmarine officer's dirk. It is the version with the hammered scabbard and has a personalised blade. Generally I view any dirk with ships or submarines on it as highly dubious, but this one has an intact feel (i.e. not a marriage of fake blade to original dirk. The reason is that it seems to fit together extremely well, and the eagle pommel tightens to just the right level facing forward. The knot seems to have been there forever. The only thing I know is wrong is the handle wire, which the previous owner did to replace the twisted brass wire. I plan to try and find out some suitable gauge wire to replace that.
The blade has the name Otto Mehlau and the Kiel Memorial (which was finished in 1936, not postwar. It became a symbol of all Naval dead, notjust German, after WWII). On the otherside is the image of a battleship. It does not have the gaudy look of the copies you see.
Thanks in advance
Kind regards
John
I wonder if you can help me with this fine quality Kriegsmarine officer's dirk. It is the version with the hammered scabbard and has a personalised blade. Generally I view any dirk with ships or submarines on it as highly dubious, but this one has an intact feel (i.e. not a marriage of fake blade to original dirk. The reason is that it seems to fit together extremely well, and the eagle pommel tightens to just the right level facing forward. The knot seems to have been there forever. The only thing I know is wrong is the handle wire, which the previous owner did to replace the twisted brass wire. I plan to try and find out some suitable gauge wire to replace that.
The blade has the name Otto Mehlau and the Kiel Memorial (which was finished in 1936, not postwar. It became a symbol of all Naval dead, notjust German, after WWII). On the otherside is the image of a battleship. It does not have the gaudy look of the copies you see.
Thanks in advance
Kind regards
John
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