It looks like a 1st model RLB subordinate, the mfg is Waffenfabrik GmbH best I can tell. Anyone have any information on this and a value?

Hello & welcome to GDC.

I`m not very conversant with this type of dagger & perhaps someone else will chime in but to try & answer your question. It is/was a RLB EM, whether first or second model is hard to say. I`m not familiar with the manufacturer`s of these daggers but in any event the grip has been replaced & the condition say`s relic or project piece. Someone looking for a project or needing any of the parts may be interested but as far as value is concerned I think not very much. Low hundreds perhaps IMO. Waffenfabrik would indicate Max Weyersberg to me but I don`t recall GMBH in their trade mark, however as previously stated I have not had occasion to take an interest in this model.

It might of been modified but I doubt it. I've had it for almost 40 years and my father before that. Neither of us have done anything to it. It's possible that something was done prior, but that would of been in the 1960's or even 1950's. I know almost nothing of these things but with WW2 over just 20 years, Korean war just over, Vietnam starting seems to me there was an excess of old military stuff floating around so why fix one? Collecting these type of things was far less common then...or I would think.

I`m sorry that you don`t like my verdict on the grip. Perhaps you might like to try looking here.
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You may draw your own conclusions.

Carl,

You have the remains of an RLB dagger. Sorry to tell you that the grip is completely wrong as you will see if you search for original examples of this dagger. The scabbard is in poor (junk) state.

The pommel, crossguard, and ??? blade may have value as parts for someone trying to rebuild a dagger.

Dave