Germany, Heer. A Miniature Officer’s Dress Dagger

(Heer Miniature Dolch für Offiziere). A well-preserved miniature Heer Officer’s dress dagger, measuring 20 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard, featuring a 13.5 cm-long nickel-plated magnetic steel blade retaining factory-original sharpening, situated within  a silvered alloy crossguard bearing a raised Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika on the obverse, with an intact red wool buffer pad covering the seam, the handle grip consisting of a single pieces of ribbed off-white celluloid, culminating in a flattened and rounded pommel bearing raised oak leaves around the outer circumference, screwing in to maintain the dagger’s structural integrity, accompanied by its original scabbard, constructed of a pebbled and silvered non-magnetic metal alloy shaft, with dual integral oak leaf bands set into the upper third, each retaining a loop for the accommodation of a hanger, unmarked, demonstrating minor loss of finish to the metal fixtures, a period miniature version commonly used as a salesman sample and letter opener, in near extremely fine condition.