Frogprinz: I assume this discovery of the chemical composition would tend to make you think its use would date the piece to the 1930s??
I have felt that some breakthrough would settle this question once and forall as I have NO DOUBT about the period of production.
I have always asked myself: Why would any reproduction "expert" utilize a dagger that would have cost him an arm and a leg to start with and then "Hokie It Up" with such a crude center band and hanger?? It just didn't make any sense to me to assume that it was something other than period. PERIOD.
Ron Weinand
Weinand Militaria
