Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, Second Type, by Friedrich Herder visually-hidden France on February 9

France on February 9

the obverse with a centred laurel wreath with a set of crossed swords superimposed between two flanking bushels of nine oak leaves

a branch of oak leaves in its beak

Group to Private Alfred Sidney Saunders

small pieces of black wool missing to the left of the crown and under the right wing

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, Second Type, by Friedrich Herder visually-hidden France on February 9(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere). A well preserved Luftwaffe Officers dagger, measuring 42 cm in total length when inserted into the accompanying scabbard. It features a 26 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with medium sharp edges with a slightly dull tip. The blade is plain with the exception of the makers mark on the reverse ricasso reading F. Herder, Solingen with the companys crossed keys monogram logo. The blade sits securely within a