Germany, Third Reich. A Postschutz Official’s Dagger, Composite Parts Example, By Carl Eickhorn Hold and for record-setting nonstop long-distance

and for record-setting nonstop long-distance flights he made or attempted between 1929 and 1931

originally published by the Army and Navy Gazette in 1915

25 General Hospital at Hardelot on June 14

1872 in Burlington

Germany, Third Reich. A Postschutz Official’s Dagger, Composite Parts Example, By Carl Eickhorn Hold and for record-setting nonstop long-distance(Postschutz Dolch). A composite parts Postschutz officials dagger, measuring 39 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. It is plain with the exception of a makers mark on the obverse ricasso reading ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms classic logo of a squirrel clutching a sword. The blade sits securely within a nickel plated