Early SS Dagger by Pack – D1079
It’s hard to locate anything in an SS dagger these days, and that even goes for at the large show venues. For as many E Pack SA’s produced during the beginning or the Nazi era, collectors do not see all that many of the counterpart SS versions. Here’s a solid M33 to check out that might just fit into your collection.
A fine looking grip begins the description of this E. Pack SS dagger. The wood remains in fantastic condition, void of any splits, chips, fractures, missing chunks, or detractive hits. A couple minor pressure marks is basically it. An excellent high neck eagle has been set perfectly straight and flush to the wood just below the center of the obverse. As you can see, the bird is all toned dark, as nothing has been cleaned nor polished on this un-touched dagger. Directly above it the same is true for the SS runic. The emblem is the flat surface variety, complete with near perfect background enameling. Both upper and lower crossguards are exceptionally smooth, with a heavy dark patina covering their surfaces. The underside of the lower fitting is scratched with some initials which can’t be made out, where as the reverse of the same component is SS district stamped with Roman numeral I. An absolutely wonderful grip and hilt assembly on this SS dagger.
Just as nice as the grip and hilt to this dagger is the scabbard to this edged weapon. The shell remains straight, void of any bends, creases, splits, or major dings. An absolute beautiful un-touched chemically blued finish over the surface has held up amazingly well for all these years. With minor oxidation aside, it’s truly hard to find an early SS dagger with a scabbard this nice, and displaying the amount of finish that this one exhibits. Both upper and lower nickel silver fittings are in fine shape, and covered with grunge that allures many collectors to a totally green and un-touched dagger as this. All the factory screws are intact, and hold the fittings solid to the shell. Even the bottom chape ball is in near perfect shape. A fine sheath to this neat looking M33.
Finally the blade. It is full length, straight, void of any cleaning, polishing, buffing, tipping, or bends. Yes, you can see that it has some staining and small cutting edge nicks as the photos somewhat show. But for a dagger which is a “green” and undisturbed as this one is all the way through, it’s exactly what some purest like to see. And especially when it comes to such an early SS manufactured by a firm who did not put out as many of these daggers as some of the other companies did. A killer black Meine Ehre heist Treue motto displays in such a sinister way on this blade, and is very much the same overall effect that this entire edged weapon does. Even the factory fine line crossgrain both obverse and reverse is evident in the areas not affected by surface age. On the reverse is the Siegfried woodchopper logo, the trademark which so many 3rd Reich enthusiast know so well.
Black, grungy, evil, sinister, un-touched. I love it! For the purest, it just doesn’t get any better! SOLD