Some answers and thoughts:

Sorry I put it here instead of in the Rohm Dagger Forum.

Pat - OST is East Prussia and they were part of the initial distribution of Rohm daggers. You might have been thinking of Austria, which was not part of the TR when these daggers were given out.

Gottlieb - The wax templates were NOT handmade. They were thin sheets of wax on special paper with the inscription as the blank areas. They were made by decal makers. Although superficially the same, there were many makers. The Rohm signature does not vary much if at all.

Everyone - EP&S is the most difficult maker to pin down as their trademark is complex and was changed in small detail and did not appear at the same place on the blade. Additionally, because trademark is complex, time in the acid bath could change the way he looked.

This dagger?

1. The screw placement on the scabbard is not what I would expect to see on an EP&S dagger. Neither are the grip wood or the scabbard anodizing - see below.

2. The etching is not as deep in the photos as I would have expected, front or back.

3. The Sigfried figure is unlike any others I have seen.

4. The letters of the word "Solingen" are very distorted.

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