Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By F.w. Höller Newly Listed Stitched onto the peak of

Stitched onto the peak of the cap is an insignia consisting of a black wool backer bearing a hand-embroidered gold bullion wire National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista) insignia in the form of a raised fasces

92 mm in diameter

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the majority of the leather liner has hardened and has turned a blackish-brown colour

where he was stabilized before being invalided wounded to England aboard the Hospital Ship Princess Elizabeth and was posted to the Canadian Engineer Regimental Depot at Seaford on November 23rd

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By F.w. Höller Newly Listed Stitched onto the peak of(Heer Offiziersdolch). A Heer Officers dress dagger, measuring 37. 5 cm in total length. It features a 26 cm long nickel plated magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. The blade is plain with the exception of a makers mark of F. W. HLLER, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms thermometer logo. It sits securely within a silver plated alloy upper crossguard, the obverse of which bears a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile