Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Alcoso Hold including a Prussian Red Cross

including a Prussian Red Cross 10-Year service badge

64 mm (w) x 64

demonstrating evidence of polishing of the frame

for suspension of the dagger hangers

in which he is credited with the destruction of eighty-eight tanks

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Alcoso Hold including a Prussian Red Cross(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere, 1. Form). A well preserved, late issue 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 tip and edges. The reverse ricasso is maker marked with the final pattern logo of Alcoso, Solingen, indicating production by the former firm of Alexander