Originally Posted By: Dean Perdue
Originally Posted By: Krikke
Yes Steve,

these daggers came out of factory without maker logo's on them.
Occasionally we see maker marked blades in chained scabbards but that was just due of the fact that the SS man already had
a standard M33 maker marked model and was qualified after a while to ware a chained scabbard. He simply bought the chained scabbard only to reduce costs and placed his M33 model in the chained scabbard. So, maker marked daggers originally don't belong in chained scabbards.


A additional explanation for a maker marked dagger ending up with a chained scabbard can be found in ss obergruppenfuhrer Fritz Weitzel's period publication The Celebrations in the Life of the SS Family where it is stated during funeral rights "the unit commander takes the dagger from the coffin and exchanges it with the dagger of a relative or close ss comrade as a sign of the continuing struggle and sense of duty of the ss".



Thanks Dean, again great information.

Last edited by srellis; 06/25/2017 01:20 PM.