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ARTIFACT:
This is an extremely rare NPEA student's dagger, and was a D-Day vet's bring-back. This is another artifact brought home by Radio Operator Clyde Williams, who was in the First Wave of the D-Day Invasion (please see link below for related products). Williams was attached to the 2nd Battalion, 47th Regiment, 9th Infantry at Cherbourg and to the 2nd Rangers Battalion at Pointe du Hoc. The dagger was purchased directly from his younger brother who recently inherited it along with a few other items also listed on the site. This is a great untouched "out of the woodwork" a great addition to any collection. The dagger would have been carried by students after four years of enrollment, and is engraved with the NPEA motto: MEHR SEIN ALS SCHEINEN (be modest but always excel). The National Political Education Institute (Nationalpoltische Erziehungsanstalt: NPEA] was formed in 1933 as a Nazi youth training ground.
VINTAGE:
Circa post-1936.
SIZE:
Overall: approximately 14-1/4" in length and 3" in width; dagger only: 13-5/8" by 3"; blade only: 8-5/8" by 1-3/8"; sheath only: 9-5/8" by 1-1/2".
MATERIALS / CONSTRUCTION:
Steel, wood, painted steel, aluminum cross guards, wool felt.
ATTACHMENT:
Frog.
MARKINGS:
KARL BURGSMULLER BERLIN (distributor trademark); engraved on blade: MEHR SEIN ALS SCHEINEN (be modest but always excel).
ITEM NOTES:
This is from a Nazi Germany collection which we will be listing more of over the next few months. VBGEJX12 LDDGEX5/12 TRCJJJX10/12
CONDITION:
8+ (Excellent): "Attic crazing" to scabbard, small moth nip to felt washer, minor nicks to handle. An excellent, untouched artifact..
GUARANTEE: As with all my artifacts, this piece is guaranteed to be original, as described.
