U-Boat Commanders Dagger

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Oropeza49

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I have a knife that belonged to a German Naval Officer/ U-Boat
Commander!!!!!!!!!! The blade has scrols/designs along the whole length of it. The cross bar is gold and the hand part is some kind
of white bone stuff and at the end it has an egale like Hitler
had at his bunker. The blade has a u-boat ingraved into it and it says some thing in german, with a date month and year. The cover is real nice: its gold , it has two gold ropes with gold acorns at the ends and two black straps with gold lions. I have close up pictures on CD but I dont know how to put them on line.Can anyone help me find
out if i have some thing real????

thanks
Oropeza49
 
Try asking on the Bernard Levine forum and include pics if you can. Hopefully it's not some Franklin Mint item.

(Whenever I see a subject line like this, I always know it's a guy's first [and sometimes only] post before I even open it! Am I psychic?)

Edited to add this pic - is this what it looks like?
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i have seen pics of one like that, my dad brought back a SA knife from italy in WW2, and i was researching it a couple yrs back, there is a web site that specialises in nazi daggers, has lotsa pics/values/etc, but, unfortunatly my PC crashed and i dont have a clue what the name is, do a google on nazi daggers and i bet ya could find it,

nice looking, by the way, the cord is often misssing IIRC, also i think the luftwaffe had a similar one also.

greg
 
Hopefully it's not some Franklin Mint item
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Exactly.

Obviously, I have never seen our new friend's knife and wouldn't know squat about it if I did. The one thing I know about Nazi cutlery is that the vast majority of it is counterfeit. The China and Taiwan have made a lot more Nazi daggers than Germany ever did.

So, the first question for Mr. Oropeza49 is: how do you know the authenticity of the knife?
 
Is there a maker's mark on the blade? Then we could tell if it was made by one of the 17 firms that manufactured nazi naval daggers between 1938 and 1945.

As mentioned there is a considerable amount of fake nazi militaria on the market. Much of it has been coming out of Eastern Europe in recent years and will even include fake markings.

See if you can find a reputable military antiques dealer in your area that is knowledgeable about nazi daggers. Some of them have an extensive collection of reference material and could probably help you authenticate your dagger.
 
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