Hello,

I have been contacted by a seller whose chained SS Dagger Picture Below is up for sale. This dagger was from his father’s collection and has been stored well for over 30+ years. He is looking to sell it and as we know they don’t go cheap. I have studied the threads here and admittedly have held only 2 of these beauties in my hands over the years. It is a purchase I will likely need to have time to consider & look it over in person in detail. I wanted to run it past my dagger and collection peers here on WRF. Open to any and all opinions as I consider it.

Rossi

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What are you thoughts on this should stock and harness set? I think the harness is clearly a reproduction item, not sure about the cleaning rod. I think the should stock is good but would like some help since the harness is repro. I would also like a price check for a C96, small ring hammer, matching numbers 60% condition, bore is good, grips are serrated with some small chips. The comparisons that I found were for ones in much better condition. There is also another C96 is rougher condition and a bag of C96 parts in rough condition. I was thinking $1500.00 for all the items including the shoulder stock and harness, but is that too high? I do not have pics of the gun, only saw in person. All opinions are appreciated.
John

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Another recent acquisition was this ‘Performance’ badge (Leistungsabzeichen) with ‘Urkunde’ awarded to Oberwachtmeister Winfried Nicol in June 1965. The rank of ‘Oberwachtmeister’ - a throwback to the TR period, was discontinued by the NVA in 1970. This pattern of badge was in use from 1960 up to 1983, the earliest patterns carried a serial number on the reverse and the fastener was of a different type. The last pattern of badge - in use from 1983 to the disbandment of the GDR military, had a raised oval disc on the back and the fastener was also changed from the 1960 to 1983 type.
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Cheers,
Steve.

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I would like to post some high resolution .png pictures to this forum, but I keep getting a "wrong extension .png" message. I took this pics with my iPhone 5s. Frustrating!

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I picked up this MkI yesterday and am trying to figure out the colour it has been repainted. I did post pictures on the WW1 forum here but didn’t ask about colours since it reminds me of a WW2 early war green so I figured it would be better to ask here. It has clearly been repainted since you can see a flash under the paint, brush strokes can be seen from either the original WW1 paint or the repaint (I am not sure which) I can see black stacking rings on the paint which makes me believe it wasn’t painted as a prop (the liner and strap could very likely be done as a prop but they are old). In artificial light it looks to be green in bright natural light it looks to be more brown. I am including pictures of both lighting (sorry it was a bright day), I haven’t had a chance to take pictures in a overcast light yet. If any further pictures are required please just ask. (first 3 are outside pictures, last 4 are with a light box). Thanks for your help in advance.

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