Personalized Uncleaned Army Officer Dagger .WKC, knight's helmet TM. Silver-plated hilt fittings show light surface wear/age patina to the oak leaf embellished pommel and generic pattern crossguard with small slope to the brow area between the upper head and beak of the eagle. Reverse crossguard is jeweler engraved with the personalization, "Dr. Abels 1938" in script letters. Off-white, plaster-filled, celluloid grip has one tiny hairline crack on the right upper edge adjacent to pommel, but no chips or nicks. Polished blade grades Exc++ showing minor surface wear/runner marks with no gray speckling or nicks to cutting edges and is complete with dark brown/black leather blade buffer pad. Dent-free, silver-plated steel scabbard shows minor surface wear with portions of factory frosting remaining on edges of shell.. Scabbard features the two, side-mounted scabbard throat retention screws as used initially by WKC. Research in the Germany Army Ranklists does not reveal an officer named "Abels" which possibly indicates Dr. Abels was a reserve officer. This officer could probably be further researched in German archives. Exc+/Exc++ (25067) $995. SOLD