Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dagger, By E. & F. Hörster certificate_of_authenticity Signed by Court Marshal Georg

Signed by Court Marshal Georg von Kanitz (1842–1922)

The front of the cap has a machine woven Army eagle in green-grey rayon thread

questioned after the war

John Robert Dyas died of February 4

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dagger, By E. & F. Hörster certificate_of_authenticity Signed by Court Marshal Georg(Heer Offizierdolch). Heer officers dagger, measuring 400 mm in length when inserted into the scabbard. The dagger features a 255 mm long magnetic metal blade, with a sharpened tip and unsharpened edges, which presents plain with the exception of a reverse makers mark of E. & F. HRSTER, SOLINGEN circumscribing the firms logo of a sword double overlaid by a dual letter H above a letter S. The blade sites within a replaced silvered zink upper