Hi Wotan,

thanks a ton for those pics. So its generic B. Makes alot of sense that it would be generic fittings. My belief is that Eickhorn did at some stage use generic A for a very short time span. I've come across too many examples for them to have been swapped out for generic cross guards. The patina was the same on all fittings and the daggers had not looked like they had been apart. The source of those daggers was from the vets themselves, or at least their family. Its just my gut feeling that at some stage in the manufacturing period they ran out of cross guards and had to purchase a few generic types. But I guess we'll never know for sure!

regards,
Dion

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