IVORY AND STAG GRIP CUTLASSES
ETCHED DEDICATION BLADES

Early Third Reich Hunting Hirschfangers. The stag grip piece has both blades etched. It is stamped WKC.
The ivory grip is etched with a three-line dedication. The other side with the standard running buck and doe etch with the hunter. The Eickhorn trademark is stamped very heavy.

If Bill Warda will be so kind, please decipher the German dedications or wording.

Front view of etched blades

Reverse view of etched blades.

Front view of stag frip blade.

Reverse view of stag grip blade.

Front view of ivory grip blade.

Reverse view of ivory grip blade.

Thank you for looking. I hope you enjoy the German Hirschfangers.

HUBERTUS

Very nice! You know, I was going to start collecting just hirschfangers, but can you believe my wife called them "gaudy"?!

The first blade with the stag handle says:

Honorary Award by the shooting club of the community forest service of Saarlouis-Werzig for the competition match on 21. September 1929.

The next one:

Founded by Mathias Hain, Trier

The ivory gripped blade:

To the forester Mr. Huettner, Stein (town), for his 25th service anniversary
Dedicated by regional forestry administrator and member of the Princely Schoenberg Forestry Office in Stein, Erzbegirge (Erz Mountains).

Ralph, Once again I can't stop drooling. These presentation pieces are the best!

Ralph, Just wonderful, I think Mikee has it right the presentation pieces are just the best. Here's a few I have. This one is a WKC, a shooting prize given for the best shot in a MG competition.

Gary

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This one is my favourite, Paul Weyersberg, given in 1937 for the 500th anniversary from one shooting club to another.

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This one is an Alcoso, given to the president of the St Sebastianus shooting club in 1930 as a gift for his 25th year as president.

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Ralph, Gary,
Absolutely incredible. Artistic beauty and magnificent examples of only the best. Just unreal!

You guys are killing me Beautiful pieces all of them.I can remember 20 yrs back you would see Hunting and Foresty daggers,If they didn't have a swaz on them no one was to interested Including myself Today I think they are reconized for there true value of workmanship

Your right Ed, sometimes you have to pay big bucks to get one of these, I sure would have liked to have been collecting 20 years ago, I could have had a field day. Here's another, not maker marked on the blade but has "AB" on the tang, August Bickel from the weimar period I would say.

Gary

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Two stag grip Hirschfangers to add to this sequence of etched blades.
One is dated 1890 and the other 1898.
I will need some more help in deciphering all the German wording on these two blades.