Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Alcoso Archive Alfonso de Borbón (Alfonso XIII)

Alfonso de Borbón (Alfonso XIII) and Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg

measuring 28 mm (w) x 39 mm (h)

he went out to France and was wounded on 15 February 1915

Footnote: The National Order of Merit was established on April 8

Nothing has been heard of these four members since they were reported on 27

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, by Alcoso Archive Alfonso de Borbón (Alfonso XIII)(Kriegsmarine Dolch fr Offiziere). An extremely well preserved Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 42. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and with dual narrow fullers running the majority of the length of each side. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of ALCOSO, SOLINGEN, for the former firm of Alexander Coppel, circumscribing the