Need help identifying three Daggers / Hirschfaenger

[browningautorifle]

Yugoslavian Naval Officer Dirk M1924. The wire wrap on the grip is correct.

There we go...at last.

[telvis78]

The naval dirk is a Yugoslavian Naval Officer Dirk M1924.

Wow!!! You rock! Thanks so much!

[Gil Boyd]

Mein Gott eine definitive antworp auf die Geschichte der derk gut gemacht

[browningautorifle]

Mein Gott eine definitive antworp auf die Geschichte der derk gut gemacht

Yup...

[telvis78]

Hello,

I have uploaded some more pictures for the last dagger that hasn't been really identified yet, and was hoping to get some more details. The album is on imgur at this link: Forestry Dagger - Album on Imgur

Thanks,

Telvis78

[Gil Boyd]

If its of any help, and not wishing to teach anyone to suck eggs, it certainly isn't an infantry assigned dagger in bayonet form. With the exclusion of any fitments to attach to a rifle muzzle and looking at the carved handle it would sit best with a Forestry post somewhere in a German speaking country, and used probably for carving up large animals.

As someone who is half German I have seen several of my elderly relatives with these so they are fairly common in and around the Black Forest. I am sure one of our German posters will be more definitive.

[browningautorifle]

I was in the museum in downtown Munich some years back and there were cabinets full of blades just like that. Nothing special, just hunting knives to dispatch animals in close quarter. There was a time when beaters would drive animals into pens and a REAL hunter would go in to dispatch it by hand. These were the blades used for that. This one even has the secondary sheath for the smaller knife, like Puma used to make. I don't think it's military at all.

[telvis78]

Thanks BAR, I was thinking it probably was nothing special. Any idea what something like that would sell for?

[browningautorifle]

That would depend on how badly an individual wanted it. If you want to know, put it on Ebay and find out...Really hard to say.