Germany, Luftwaffe. A First Model Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Dedicated Damascus Blade Newly Listed along with an additional floral

along with an additional floral band along the circumference where the stem meets the base

"on medical grounds and transferred to the general section of the Reserve Class "E" "

original ribbon with broach

with a machine-embroidered lightning-bolt shaped downwards facing arrow in silver-grey thread

and the Union of South Africa

Germany, Luftwaffe. A First Model Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Dedicated Damascus Blade Newly Listed along with an additional floral(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offizier, 1. Modell mit Damastklinge). An interesting and unusual example of a first model Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 48 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a striking magnetic Damascus steel blade of quality post 1945 manufacture, measuring 30. 5 cm in length and featuring a sharpened tip and edges. The obverse bears a gilded owners name of FELDW. LUDWIG DIETSCH, flanked on each side by