Exploring the Dress Daggers of the German Navy Volume 3

Wittmann, Thomas T.; Jan Piet Puype; William J. Warda, Jr. [ed]

ISBN 10: 0964606321 / ISBN 13: 9780964606326

Published by Thomas T. Wittmann / Alcom Printing Roup Inc., Pennsylvania, 1999

About this Item

26 x 18.5 cm. 532pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Extensively illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Stated first edition. Volume 3 only of the four volume "Exploring" series. Light edgewear to the jacket. Wittman is an acknowledged expert on German dress daggers of both the Imperial Kaiserzeit and the Third Reich. Chapter headings include: "The S.M.S. "Amazone" Dirk", "The 1948 Pattern Dirk", "The Dress Bayonet of 1872 for Cadets", "The 1890 Cadet Pattern", "Colonialization - Edged Weapons of Marine Infantry and Colonial Troops", "The model 1890 is introduced", "Variances and extra cost dirks after 1901", "The Naval dirks of Kaiser Wilhelm", "Smaller Dirks and miniatures", "The Grand Scuttle and the provisional Reich navy 1919-1921", "The Reichsmarine and the 1921 Pattern", "The 1929 Pattern", "The Kriegsmarine and the introduciton of the National Eagle pommel for the naval dirk in 1938", "Producers of the 1938 naval pattern dirk", "Hilts, trademarks and scabbards", "Ultra-rare makers", "Grips, integral parts, packaging and hanging devices", "Personalized Kriegsmarine dirks","Variations and rarely seen naval patterns", "Extra cost options", "Kriegsmarine presentation dirks", "Shooting prize and the official presentation dirks of the navy", "Early Prussian and Imperial naval sabers 1848 - 1918", "The Sabers of the imperial family", "Sabers of the provisional Reichmarine", "Miniatures and semi-official examples".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring the Dress Daggers of the German Navy Volume 3
• Publisher: Thomas T. Wittmann / Alcom Printing Roup Inc., Pennsylvania
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964606321
• ISBN 13: 9780964606326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

There are more than 700 professional photographs with over 100 printed in full color. The text follows the development of the Naval Dress Dirk after it was first introduced by Prussia as an official pattern in 1848. The book details the wearing tradition of the dirk as it continued to be carried by the German Navy for the next century, finally ending with the defeat of the Kriegsmarine in World War II. All periods are supplemented with rare in-wear photographs. With each buoyant era of German history the Naval dress dirk was altered to reflect changes in government status and the mood of the times. The book addresses all patterns together with the multitudes of beautiful and fascinating variations appearing over the one hundred year wearing time. To give life and perspective to each pattern, the history of the apropos period is covered with each chapter.