Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie Archive Barker fell in love with

Barker fell in love with aviation after watching pioneer aviators flying Curtiss and Wright Flyer aircraft at farm exhibitions between 1910 and 1914

Flight Lieutenant Cameron Shortts and Stoker Petty Officer Bill Birney

along with a production flaw in the laminate on the back cover

1917 at the 1st Canadian Convalescent Depot

measures 61

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An Officer’s Dress Dagger, By Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie Archive Barker fell in love with(Kriegsmarine Offiziersdolch). A well preserved Kriegsmarine Officers dress dagger, measuring 42 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25. 5 cm long nickel plated magnetic steel blade with a sharpened tip and edges, and with narrow dual fullers running approximately two thirds of the length of each side. It bears double sided acid etched designs consisting of central fouled anchors flanked by arabesque and serpentine