Paul,

You are right, what a beauty!

Weren't these typically Rohm daggers? I have this mark on a ground Rohm.

John

Very nice piece, earliest Eickhorn ? For sale on your website or private collection ?
Regards,
Hoegaarden.

Yea John that's a great question. IMHO this mark was used on both Rohm's and non-Rohm daggers. Shortly after Eick switched over to the small oval for Rohm's.

My thought is that this 'large double oval' trademark is the second* earliest trademark used by Eickhorn on SA daggers.

It is found in both smooth and serrated tail versions, both with and without the Rohm inscription. As Paul says above, Eickhorn soon switched to the small double oval trademarks.

* The earliest was the small single oval squirrel with CE underneath that was found on the prototypes with the pointy wings

The same is true of SS daggers except no known prototypes have turned up.

Dave

I like that Ike!

Wow stunning dagger

Here s mine, benchmark and sa gruppe are the same. Regards,Hoegaarden.

Show off, just kidding. That is a beautiful Elkhorn, love it!^^^^^^^

Thanks for the compliment if it was ment for me offcourse. Regards, Hoegaarden.

It was, it's a beauty! Mine looks very similar but the blade on mine is not quite as nice as yours.

Well, as long as we are showing off.

John

Nice dagger John, is the name William scratched in to the grip?

Yes, it does look like it, Mikes.

Here is the large TM, also ground Rohm, but without the periods after the C and E.

Nice shine on the blade.

Great stuff here guys!
Finding one of these in this condition is rare!

Here is one with with a weird scribble of some sort.

That's showing off. Very Nice.