Germany, HJ. A Leader’s Dagger, with Hanger, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac surrounded by a white enameled

surrounded by a white enameled ring inscribed “Virtuti et Merito” in capitalized letters

the hanger with numerous handwritten inscriptions and maker marked "S

suspended from a traditional Chinese horizontal hanger incorporating an original ribbon with pinback

Upon the outbreak of hostilities in the First World War

above a mobile swastika overlaid by a wheat stalk and sword

Germany, HJ. A Leader’s Dagger, with Hanger, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac surrounded by a white enameled(HJ Fhrerdolch). An HJ Leaders Dagger, measuring 35 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 23. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to the edges and tip, and with some of its original crossgrain still visible. Acid etched onto the obverse is an inscription of BLUT UND EHRE! (BLOOD AND HONOUR!) in Latin script, while the reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of ORIGINAL