Wotan:
I have looked at my five distributor marked Eickhorns.
All have the 35-41 seated squirrel mark.
Three have tapered tangs (the A Kuhl, the William Gunther and the H Mutz). The other two (and my distributor marked 2nd Luft) all have the stepped tang that we would expect on a 35-41 produced dagger.
Interesting.
John
Hi John,
am I missing something here?
you say all have the 1935-41 eickhorn logo, and you would expect a shouldered tang on a 35-41 produced dagger?
Well initial production started in 1935 for the army daggers, and the tapered tang has been used at least up till the end of 1936.
The aluminium type 1 Eickhorn guard comes with this 1935-41 logo, so they abandoned the oval logo very early after their first initial slants with type 1 guard.
Ger
