Germany, SS. A Model 1933 Service Dagger, with Chained Leader’s Scabbard, by Carl Eickhorn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 1st Class Gold Grade Medal

1st Class Gold Grade Medal (in bronze gilt

but with typical features of maker Ferdinand Wiedmann

and with very faint contact marks on the enamels

Footnote: Leslie William Cannon was born on April 9

constructed of golden celleon flat wires on top of very fine velvet Scarlett backing

Germany, SS. A Model 1933 Service Dagger, with Chained Leader’s Scabbard, by Carl Eickhorn Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 1st Class Gold Grade Medal(Schutzstaffel Dienstdolch M33, mit Stahlscheide M36). A well preserved SS Model 1933 Service Dagger, measuring 37. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 22. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with both its edges and tip slightly sharpened. Acid etched onto the obverse of the blade is an inscription of MEINE EHRE HEIT TREUE (MY HONOUR IS LOYALTY) in Fraktur script. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of