Germany, Hj. A Member’s Knife By Emil Voos Waffenfabrik Auction 3rd Model - Bronze gilt

3rd Model - Bronze gilt

surrounded by the inscription HONNEUR ET PATRIE (Honor and Fatherland)

to commemorate the end of the campaign on Russian soil against Napoleonic forces

this time to Cherry Hinton Military Hospital in Cambridge on March 4

Germany, Hj. A Member’s Knife By Emil Voos Waffenfabrik Auction 3rd Model - Bronze gilt(HJ Fahrtenmesser). A very well preserved HJ members knife, measuring 255 mm in length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 140 mm long magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and semi sharpened edges. The obverse of the blade bears an acid etched inscription of BLUT UND EHRE! (BLOOD AND HONOUR!), while the reverse is marked with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo, a date of 1938, and a maker code of M7 2 for Emil Voos Waffenfabrik,