Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dagger, By Carl Eickhorn Newly Listed the inside of the pin

the inside of the pin is marked BW

while the left shoulder bears a bronze base for an analogous button

Arthur Charles Sandford (born 1877) was a veteran of the Boer War

The Royal Irish Regiment

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dagger, By Carl Eickhorn Newly Listed the inside of the pin(Kriegsmarine Offiziersdolch). An extremely well preserved Kriegsmarine Officers dagger, measuring 42 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25. 5 cm long nickel plated magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges, and with double sided acid etched designs consisting of central fouled anchors flanked by arabesque and serpentine designs. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN,