Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Storage Case And Cap Eagle, By Stöcker & Co. Archive 1882 by the Guangxu Emperor

1882 by the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Ci Xi

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

light smudging on the reverse

encircled by a beaded circular outsider ring

Germany, Heer. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, With Postwar Storage Case And Cap Eagle, By Stöcker & Co. Archive 1882 by the Guangxu Emperor(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