A World War II German Luftwaffe second Pattern dress dagger a good example of a 2nd Luftwaffe Dagger marked 17 on the tang, with original portepee and hangers. The bright period upgraded plated blade on this piece looks great. It has a tight fit, sharp tip. There is some age spotting and surface scratches throughout. The original buffer pad remains intact. The nicely patinaed steel based, silver plated scabbard looks great but does show deep wear to the side worn closest to the body. It is wonderfully detailed with oak leaves and acorns and random pebbling throughout. Both dome head screws remain intact and it remains dent free. The matching patinaed cross guard looks immaculate, beautifully detailed throughout the eagle's feathers and wings along with the top side acorns and oak leaves. The steel ferrule and aluminium pommel are both nicely detailed and the pommel has the correct E. Pack signature spotting. The celluloid covered grip looks excellent being chip and crack-free
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- Oak - Native to Europe and England, oak has been used for joinery, furniture and building since the beginning of the medieval civilisation. It is a pale yellow in colour when freshly cut and darkens with age to a mid brown colour.
Oak as a furniture timber was superceded by walnut in the 17th century, and in the 18th century by mahogany,
Semi-fossilised bog oak is black in colour, and is found in peat bogs where the trees have fallen and been preserved from decay by the bog. It is used for jewellery and small carved trinkets.
Pollard oak is taken from an oak that has been regularly pollarded, that is the upper branches have been removed at the top of the trunk, result that new branches would appear, and over time the top would become ball-like. . When harvested and sawn, the timber displays a continuous surface of knotty circles. The timber was scarce and expensive and was used in more expensive pieces of furniture in the Regency and Victorian periods.
- Celluloid - In 1864 an American scientist by the name of Parkes mixed camphor with nitrocellulose, etc. The result was what came to be known as "celluloid", the first form of plastic, and a product for which Parkes could find no use.
Some time later when the supplies of ivory for making billiard balls were becoming difficult to obtain, an inventor produced a perfect billiard ball from a mould using "celluloid".
Toys, dolls and other products such as combs, cutlery handles and costume jewellery made from celluloid began appearing on the market from 1913 and continued to do so until the early 1950s by which time it was superseded by more modern products due to safety concerns because it was highly flammable and brittle product.
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