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Posted By: Rhidian 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/04/2014 09:52 PM
Hi All,

Here are my 2 Weyersberg army daggers with variant crossguards, would like to hear some opinions on them both. The earlier example came complete with the hangers and a beautiful portepee, far better quality than other portepees I've handled (not many).

Cheers

Rhidian

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Posted By: Rhidian Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/04/2014 09:58 PM
second example

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Posted By: Rhidian Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/04/2014 10:01 PM
Last two pics of the mankers marks

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Posted By: Janos Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/05/2014 11:31 AM
Hi Rhidian,
thank you for showing your beautiful Weyersberg daggers!
IMO both are absolutely correct specimen.
The first is an earlier type dagger with slant grip and 1st Weyersberg crossguard. Totally textbook. And even the "M" letter on the crossguard is a typical Weyersberg engraving.
The other one is with normal grip and 2nd Weyersberg crossguard - very nice also.
Unfortunately the photos are so small sized.

I posted a topic about the chronology of the Weyersberg Heer daggers on the forum a few years ago, probably it will be interesting for you.

http://phpstack-500133-1583587.cloudwaysapps.com/ubbthread...true#Post234002

Best regards,
Janos
Posted By: Rhidian Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/05/2014 12:21 PM
Hi Janos,

Many thanks for the detailed response and sorry for the poor photos, I really struggle to take tidy pics of daggers.

Just read your thread, great info thanks and I thought the engraving was done later, didn't realise it was done by weyersberg in house.

My earlier example is numbered 395 but only on the grip.

Cheers

Rhidian
Posted By: Janos Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/05/2014 03:38 PM
Rhidian,

your number 395 dagger fits correctly to the chronology I think.

Here is another link about personalized Weyersbergs:
http://phpstack-500133-1583587.cloudwaysapps.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=277387&page=2

As you can see, the style of the engraved letter on your dagger is identical to the discussed daggers in the topic.
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Posted By: Tanker Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/05/2014 06:14 PM
Janos
Here is a somewhat better pic of the engraving on the crossguard in the above pic (first dagger).
Ron

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Posted By: dr73 Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/05/2014 08:43 PM
Beautiful daggers you guys show here. Weyersberg is certainly one of my favourite makers of heer daggers. Thanks for sharing.

Danny
Posted By: WW2-Collector Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/06/2014 04:00 AM
I like what I see - You have to love the Weyersberg Cyclops eye - Nice daggers!
Posted By: Rhidian Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/06/2014 07:53 AM
Cheers for the good comments

Thanks again Janos for the link and I see the similarities in the etchings so it makes sense they were done in house

Regards

Rhidian
Posted By: Kevin (heers68) Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/08/2014 06:10 PM
Real beauties Rhidian! Very nice patina and beauty grips on both! The Weyersberg jeweler engraving is a cool mystery with this maker..was it done at the factory or was there a large uniform distributer that sourced thier daggers from Weyersberg?? Interesting for sure. Congrats on these! Kevin.
Posted By: Rhidian Re: 2 weyersberg army daggers - 07/12/2014 10:13 PM
Thanks Kevin for the positive comments, I agree the grips are nice especially the early one, just wish my pics were better :-)

Cheers

Rhidian
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