Sometimes your Lucky enough to be at the right time at the right place, well…. i had that luck yesterday on the La Gleize militaria Show in Belgium.
Normally an event where lots of ground dig relics and vehickle stuff can be found and hardly a decent dress dagger blade that i’m looking for, mainly parts daggers or bad conditioned late war generic ones.
Almost at the very end of the street (its an open air show) i spotted 3 army dagger on a table of a guy who had mainly awards & uniform stuff.
The slant grip pulled me to the table like a magnet
This WKC came straight from a German Household, an untouched mint set in every way, it comes with a heavy early brass hangers set and a lovely portepee.
The blade is a real stunner!
Full crossgrain from top to bottom, man do i love it when your pulling a blade ot of its scabbard and the crossgrain smiles at you in the sunlight, it realy made my day.
After that we drove to the Bastogne and Malmedy Museums, very impressive, we finished the day with a lovely dinner at the Malmedy museum bistro, some great food they serve!
This one is the Type 1A, the eagles head has a round forehead, while normally you see the WKC Type 1 with a knick in his forehead.
I will let the pics do the talking.
Enjoy!
Regards,
Ger

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