HJ Dagger by WKC Solingen

[ww2wrecks]

A nice, weathered but solid HJ Dagger by WKC Solingen

[ww2wrecks]

some more photos

[Mac 66]

The trademark & motto look like they have been added to the blade, either that the blade has been added to the hilt post war ?

Can you show a clear pic of the rivets on the plain grip side ?

No RZM stamp on a blade with ricasso on a late WKC hj is not correct imo.

[Wim Vangossum]

Like Mac I'm not very keen on this piece. I owned one from 1938 with the motto and they are marked on the ricasso.


Regards, Wim

[helmuthunter]

Very interesting indeed.

[ww2wrecks]

Here are some more photos.

[Mac 66]

The diamond insignia looks like a repro & the rivets are aluminium repair type.

i do not like this knife at all .

[Victorman]

An alloy hilt with short finger guard was rarely used on mottoed HJ-knifes.

WKC does have many variations when it comes to maker marks, but from 1936 on they used the double mark (knight + RZM code and year of production).

This firm did use an alloy hilt on their very last mottoed, 1938-made, HJ-knifes but in combination with the double mark (see pic, 2nd knife from right).

So I also have serious doubt about the WKC HJ shown here...

Best regards,

Victorman

PS: also note the evolution of the ricasso on WKC-knifes

[ww2wrecks]

Many thanks for your informative feedback! So this HJ Dagger is a "frankenstein" made up from different parts, a fake or what else? I wonder who would go to such lengths for a quite common item, which do not fetch high prices?

[PeterM7]

The donor knife may have been a post war Scout knife, quite cheap to obtain, so I could see a motivation there. But these days with internet it's harder for these fraudsters pass these things off as authentic. As has just been demonstrated in this thread.

[ww2wrecks]

many thanks for the responses Gentlemen, I will make sure to stay away from this one, then.
Kind regards,