Bright polished cast blade w/scroll work design on both sides, dark yellow composition grip w/inset plate having engraved detection, gilt plated S cross guard & pommel cap having engraved Soviet crest on back & 5 pointed star on top.
Includes black leather covered scabbered w/ gilt plated fittings, double ring belt hanger & applied Soviet state crest .
Your dagger is quite interesting. I believe that I was offered this very same piece at one point in the last year or so by an emigre dealer at the Meadowlands militaria show in Union, NJ. As I recall, he was asking somewhere between three and four hundred dollars for it.
The sloppy aplication of the crest turned me off and the low price seemed strange, too.
As a dealer I have been offered a few of these daggers. I am very suspect of them. They are not well made and usually are very vauge on who got them and from whom they were issued, etc. Also, they tend to never have any other items with them from the same guy. I would not get involved with these or many other "KGB" items. Maybe Caza knows if the KGB even gave these out.
knowing the quality fabrication of even the last more common navy daggers, I do not see why the chrome metal should be so uglyly porous and the metal dedication plate crudely cut...these and yours doubts gentlemen make me infer it is an amazing fake.
Sebastien
"a spectre haunts Europe, the spectre of communism"
(a well-known german bearbed)
