Hi,

Just thought I would share my new acquisition to my growing collection of dark side daggers. This purchase comes with a story.

I restarted my German dagger collecting with SS daggers about four months ago. I have been bugging a friend to sell me his Ground Rolm SS dagger. I finally gave up and purchased one last month. As fate would have it, within a week or so my buddy called and said he would sell me his. It happens every time

With the story out of the way, here is my latest SS dagger. I think it is a pretty nice early Ground Rolm Eickorn SS dagger. It has most of the cross grain with just a few dark portions. Scabbard has about 50% of the original lacquar (sp?) and all of the anodizing.

I have always liked the look for these political daggers.

Your comments welcome.

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Benchmarked?

Skyline,

This one is not bench marked. Neither one of mine are.

Nice dagger! Unbenchmarked Eick's are not a problem with me, but some people need that security blanket. There is no question that many blades produced by that firm were not benched. It looks like a factory job with the crossgraining reapplied. Any chance of getting a closeup of the crossgrain? Was the obverse crossgraining also reapplied?

Skyline,
Thanks for your comments regarding my dagger. The back of the blade has a very nice factory re-grind. It almost blends into the rest of the blade. I doubt if my camera will be able to pick up the crossgrain difference.

I will post a picture of the grinding at my next available moment.

Looks like a very nice pick up there Blademan. I would be pretty happy with that.

Nice grab! Scabbard looks great too, looks like all of the "anodizing" is still there and most of the lacquer.

Great Score! I bet by now the guy who sold you the SS is regeting it.
As Always

Nice dagger .The most benchmarked Eickhorns what i have seen , sa and ss , bears the early double oval .