Germany, Hj. A Member’s Knife, By Anton Wingen Jr. consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1914 – magnetic core

1914 – magnetic core

79 mm (w) x 60

Officially impressed (Corpl

Suspended from an 84 mm long gilt chain

Loyall Farragut published a very full and valuable biography of his famous father in 1878

Germany, Hj. A Member’s Knife, By Anton Wingen Jr. consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1914 – magnetic core(HJ Fahrtenmesser). An extremely well preserved HJ members knife, measuring 26 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 14 cm long nickel plated magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and lower edge. The reverse ricasso is marked with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and makers code of M7 51 for Anton Wingen Jr., of Solingen, in turn flanked by a manufacture date of 39. It sits securely within a one piece, nickel plated,