Ground Rohm SA Honor Dagger by Eickhorn – D835

Some Ground Rohms were resurfaced with such perfection by workers at the Eickhorn factory, that you absolutely cannot tell that there was a dedication on the reverse of the blade. This is one such dagger in this listing. As a matter of fact, the obverse is exactly the same. I’m not sure when this was done, but it definitely is not some cobbled up garage buffing wheel that was used on it. Have a look for yourself.

The grip on this Eick Ground Rohm is truly a beauty. The wood is smooth as a babies keester, about as flawless as imaginable, and laden with gorgeous light and dark grain flowing throughout. Typical for this edged weapon firm, a high neck eagle was used for the national symbol. The nickel silver bird shows excellent detail, with no visible sign of surface wear. Likewise, the SA runes button looks as mint as the day that it was place in this handle, some 87 years ago. The same is true for the crossguards. They are super smooth to the touch, and void of any age or imperfections. The lower crossguard has the benchmark #5 on the bottom, and SA Gruppe stamped Wf on the reverse. One of the best hilt assemblies that you are apt to see, on any early nickel silver Storm Trooper’s dress dagger.

The scabbard to this dagger is edged weapon is in good condition. It is straight, void of any creases, hits, splits, or dents. The period brown anodizing is still very good on this shell, and rates 95%. Both the upper and lower nickel fitting are in excellent shape, and held secure by 4 dome head screws. Even the lower chape ball is about perfect as you will see, on one of these early political daggers scabbards.

This blade is straight as an arrow, drawn to a needle sharp tip, and void of any tipping, sharpening, pitting, or cutting edge chips. As mentioned, it has been professionally polished at some point by a true craftsman. Whom ever accomplished this task certainly knew what they were doing. If you think about it, when the reverse was ground and factory re-polished, no doubt it no longer matched the surface of the obverse. Could have the obverse also had been polished at this same manner at the time, so that both sides would match? Who knows?  In lieu of that, the motto still project a nice light gray burnishing to each and every letter of the etch and some crossgrain can still be seen. And the etch still has the depth of what you would expect to see with these SA blades. On the reverse, the small double oval squirrel trademark remains all intact.  

A very attractive, Eickhorn Ground Rohm SA Honor dagger.  SOLD