Hello Fredrik, could you show photographs of this dagger? Up to now I never have seen a doubtless period gilded crossguard swastika.
But in this hobby we tend never to say never.
On the other side we have to keep in mind these were uniform -duty- items (although sometimes privately bought) and for the common soldier/officer any alteration (beside initials on the hidden side) could cause servere punisment by the senior officer.
If you did duty in your army, could you imagine having gilded the trigger of your gun
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Regards,
