Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Storage Case And Cap Eagle, By Stöcker & Co. Archive Artillerie R

Artillerie R

1882 by the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Ci Xi

Footnote: William Francis Faught was born on March 8

Förste became the commanding officer of the light cruiser “Karlsruhe”

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Storage Case And Cap Eagle, By Stöcker & Co. Archive Artillerie R(Heer Offiziersdolch mit Etui und Mtzenadler). An extremely well preserved Heer Officers dress dagger, measuring 40 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges. The blade is plain with the exception of a makers logo near the reverse ricasso for the firm of Stcker & Co., Solingen. It sits securely within a nickel plated crossguard, the obverse of which