Partial Rohm SA Honor Dagger by Heller – D1122

Within days of the Rohm Purge, the order came out that the recipients of the honor daggers awarded to both SA & SS members, were to have the entire dedication and signature ground from the reverse of these edged weapon blades. In other words, void of any trace of the traitors name, nor the salutation regarding in heartfelt comradeship. So as collectors, we know that this directive was not followed in all cases by the owners of these daggers. The example in this offering is special for a number of reasons. For one, it was manufactured by a producer not often seen to have made all that many Rohm honor daggers. Secondly, It has near enough the entire dedication on the reverse side, minus just a couple end letters. And lastly, it still bears a bit of the etched signature of  the Chief of Staff of the entire SA party, Ernst Rohm. Have a look!

The medium brown oak grip to this SA dagger is in very good condition. Being void of any chips, cracks, or chunks of missing wood, it exhibits only the typical light pressure marks from the time that it was carried. That is remarkable in itself, being that this is a Rohm Honor dagger and one of the first SA’s manufactured in early 1934. The nickel silver eagle is in good shape, set perfectly straight and flush to the obverse surface. The same is true of the SA runes button directly above it. Though it shows some light surface age, it is still very much intact in regards to the silvering of the letters and the dark brown enamel. As expected, the hardware on the hilt of this dagger is comprised of nickel silver fittings. The surface of those crossguards show some minor age and superficial scratches, though not all that detracting to speak of.

The scabbard to this Heller Storm Trooper’s dagger is in good condition. Save for the on ding on the lower obverse, the shell remains otherwise straight, and void of any bends, splits, or other hits. While not perfect, the original factory chemical brown coating is good, and rates at 80%. Both the upper and lower nickel fittings are in place, remain uncleaned just as the hilt components are, and held snuggly in place by 4 proper dome head screws. As a wonderful bonus to this scabbard assembly, the original 3 piece marching hanger that this sheath came with still remains laced through the upper fitting ring. It is basically complete, though minus the small slack loop found normally on the short hanger leather strap.

And we complete this description with the blade. It is full length, straight, void of any sharpening, tipping, or cutting edge chips. You’ll notice I didn’t say it was void of any grinding, because of course it shows the owner’s handiwork on the reverse! The obverse displays the dark Alles fur Deutschland motto that the Heller edged weapon firm was noted for on their SA’s. All of the letters have held up nicely as you can see in the photos. And on the reverse is what makes this dagger so special. As previously mention, the entire dedication in the facsimile of Ernst Rohm’s handwriting is still very much intact, with the exception of the last 3 letters in the word “comradeship”. Moving a little bit further toward the trademark, you can still make out several of the top and bottom letters in the Chief of Staff’s name. You can’t really feel the was appears to be file marks which the owner of this dagger imparted just on the surface so lightly, in order to mostly remove the Rohm signature.  How neat is that? Not only did that soldier defy the order to grind the entire reverse of his blade, he also left some traces of the traitor’s name on it! Finally, the small anchor logo of the Gebruder Heller is properly shown just above the lower section of the crossguard.

Truly a historical Rohm Honor dagger, with dedication and partial signature still intact.   SOLD