Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger, By Alcoso consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac maker marked "ELLIS BROS"

maker marked "ELLIS BROS"

8 mm (w) x 31

Christopher Lance

Both shoulders have a 190 mm long x 32 mm wide strip of balsa wood wrapped within a white and two-tone brown embroidered panel

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Hanger, By Alcoso consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac maker marked "ELLIS BROS"(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offizier mit Gehnge). A Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 43 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 mark on the reverse ricasso reading ALCOSO, SOLINGEN, for the former firm of Alexander Coppel, flanked by the companys classic scale logo. The blade sits securely within