Germany, Kriegsmarine. A First Pattern Officer’s Dress Dagger Hold Cavendish Square

Cavendish Square

with a wreath just below the lip on the exterior

measuring 20 mm (w) x 50 mm (l)

the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI) (for war services

bearing the RAD downward-pointing shovel insignia with the numbers “353-7”

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A First Pattern Officer’s Dress Dagger Hold Cavendish Square(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offizier, 1. Modell). A very well preserved first pattern Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 40. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. Dual narrow fullers extend approximately two thirds of the length of each side of the blade. Unmarked, it sits securely within a gilded bronze crossguard, bearing double sided