Germany, Luftwaffe. A First Model Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Dedicated Damascus Blade Auction obverse with a cross pattée

obverse with a cross pattée enameled in white

all within an open-ended wreath composed of two branches of laurel leaves and tied together at the junction by a ribbon

obverse illustrating three infantrymen firing their rifles

as the Germans never entered Paris during WWI

War Medal 1939-1945 (NX17742 L

Germany, Luftwaffe. A First Model Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Dedicated Damascus Blade Auction obverse with a cross pattée(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offizier, 1. Modell mit Damastklinge). An interesting and unusual example of a first model Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 48 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a striking magnetic Damascus steel blade of quality post 1945 manufacture, measuring 30. 5 cm in length and featuring a sharpened tip and edges. The obverse bears a gilded owners name of FELDW. LUDWIG DIETSCH, flanked on each side by