Mikee,,, That silver content die stamp Fred shows,,,they are super hardened steel and last a very long time as long as they are marking softer metals [which they always do]. The couple period jewelers I interviewed for my project both said that they used the old stamps from WW1 to mark their WW2 time period pieces when they did mark them.. There are 1000s of piece of old silver on the silver forum sites,,not ONE shows a stamp like on that link.
The Imperial German crowns are all the same. The crown on the link isn't an interpretation or anything like that. It's just incorrect.
Like I mentioned a few times,,I don't care one bit about daggers. The dagger in question could be good or fake makes no difference to me. All I can reiterate is that the way the stamp is configured it is not correct.
