Croatia, Independent State. A Second War Air Force Officer’s Dagger Auction his left hand gripping his

his left hand gripping his sword

Victory Medal (8541 SJT

the obverse with a rightward facing portrait of Kaiser Franz Joseph of Austria

a part of Czechoslovakia where many ethnic Germans lived

The upper right breast bears an insignia in the form of a dark grey trapezoid patch with a field-grey cotton threaded backer overlaid by a silver-grey Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Croatia, Independent State. A Second War Air Force Officer’s Dagger Auction his left hand gripping hisThis is a very well preserved Second War Croatian Air Force officers dagger, measuring 420 mm in length when inserted into the scabbard. The dagger features a 244 mm long magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and blunted edges. The ricasso bears an intact brown leather washer covering the seam with the upper crossguard, itself constructed of bronze and presenting as a stylized eagle with wings spread. The crossguard transitions into a knotted