Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Alcoso Hold with grey and silvery machine

with grey and silvery machine embroidered threads

marked with AB&Cie makers mark on ring and a double struck boars head denoting a silver guarantee on the ribbon t 6 o’clock

including a Prussian Red Cross 10-Year service badge

there is very little to comment on here as the helmet is a stunning

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Alcoso Hold with grey and silvery machine(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere, 1. Form). A well preserved, late issue first pattern Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 48. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 31 cm long, nickel plated magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the tip and edges. The reverse ricasso is maker marked with the final pattern logo of Alcoso, Solingen, indicating production by the former firm of Alexander