Eickhorn crossguards

[DJR]

Attached below is a picture of the currently accepted different types of crossguards used by Eickhorn from 1935 until they made their last dagger, probably sometime in 1942-43 time frame. It has always been widely accepted that they made 2 different types. That later changed to 3 different types. That has changed during the last couple of years to the types shown below. Jason Burmeister brought this information out and it has been seen and widely accepted by Many. Some of the differences are difficult to see until you study them closely, but they are distinctly different at that point.

DJ

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[Laurence Strong]

Here's a close up of the cossguard on the one and only dagger I own, I have been told it's an early version.

[Bob Rodgers]

Djr,

Great presentation of the four !!!!

Now tell me how you did that

[DJR]

Laurence

Unless my eyes deceive me at my advanced age, you do have a relatively early crossguard like type 3. The chest feathers on type 3 are more pronounced/courser than those on either type 1 or 2. Beautiful crossguard design....

DJ

[DJR]

Bob

The "collage" was built using a program named "PhotoMix". Nice little program that I bought via the Internet.

DJ