Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Alcoso Hold including a Prussian Red Cross

including a Prussian Red Cross 10-Year service badge

for suspension of the dagger hangers

including a 1915 Defence of Tirol badge

the scabbard fitting very loose versus the dagger and measuring 172 mm in length

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, First Pattern, by Alcoso Hold including a Prussian Red Cross(Luftwaffe Dolch fr Offiziere, 1. Form). A well preserved, late issue first pattern Luftwaffe Officers dress dagger, measuring 48. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 31 cm long, nickel plated magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the tip and edges. The reverse ricasso is maker marked with the final pattern logo of Alcoso, Solingen, indicating production by the former firm of Alexander