Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Carl Eickhorn Republic of the reverse bearing a label

the reverse bearing a label with Meyering’s name

Footnote: The medal was instituted on 26 June 1875 by King Christian IX at the suggestion of the veterans of the war

showing a swan with a crown around its neck

in fitted LDO case of issue

Table Medal (in bronze

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Carl Eickhorn Republic of the reverse bearing a label(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere, 1. Form). A 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 edges and tip. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of CARL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms classic squirrel logo, in a pattern appropriately used by the company