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I picked this up a couple of weeks ago at the JAG Show. It's a great looking dagger. The blade is really nice, lots of crossgrain left. I like everything about this dagger. It shows some age and wear as yu would expect, not quite mint, but no faults that I can see. Some gilding is left on the pommel.
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Here's the mark on the reverse.
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The grip could use a little cleaning. It has just a couple of small dings. The wire is the small wrapped aluminum and it is in perfect shape
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I got this one at the same time. An eickhorn with the later rare over the shoulder trademark.
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Very nice-that grip wire is unique to C&J
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Really cool trademark Phil!
Is C+J any more rare on a Luft dagger, than an Army?
I have a Clemen and Jung Heer with the shield logo only. No Name on the other side of the blade.
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Congrats I like the Clemen! I have an early one that I have posted before,here it is for comparison. Kevin.
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Kevin, You really can see the similarites in the grip and the wire. Thanks for the pic. Eric, I think the Luft is less common than the army. Your army with the shield only is really rare. Phil
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As I recall there are several repos out there that exhibit the shield only in the TM. Clemen & Jung got a bad rap as being fakes for quite sometime. This might apply to the 2nd Luft only, not to sure about the Heer. Nice daggers there guys!
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Phil, I have found that another exclusive trait of C&J lufts is the ingraving or hand embelishment of the eagles neck and breast area.I have seen a few late ones without it but most have it.Maybe the ingraver had to go to the front?? Does yours have a similar pattern to my pic? Kevin.
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You out there Hans51?? Kevin.
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Kevin, Lot's people used to say I was out there, but I quit doing that stuff years ago. Here's a pic of the crossguard, it doesn't appear to have any extra hand work. This is the only C & J that I have so I don't have anything to compare to. Phil
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