Hello Russ

It's funny then now there are at least two Eickhorn daggers with these bands, nobody knows what went on at this time, I look at the fit and patina on my dagger and I see total consistency in both, there's no doubt in my mind that it has always been together like this, I haven't got any WKC 1929 pattern daggers to compere the scabbard to so it's difficult to say one way or another what makers used the bands. I did notice that your dagger was not a No10, I have found that both Eickhorn and especially WKC would supply you with whatever you wanted if you had the money for it.

Thank you for your thoughts, I shall keep my eyes open for a nice WKC to compere my dagger to.
Gary