The Luftwaffe dagger has been ruined with that nonsense engraving. A Luftwaffe officer would have an excellent hand engraving. Go to a show near the end of it and find someone who is willing to make a deal or wait until I find one. 

What's up Mike, the tie tapes are also bad, but what I can see the tie tape rings on both sides look O.K.. Can you please post photos of the manufacturers stamps on the rear skirt. Good luck trying to find an original liner.          Thanks,Bill

Here you go. Probably can see immediately that the liner is a poor reproduction. I have a quality repro on the way. I'll be looking for a correct wwii liner in the meantime.       

Sure can. I'm working on another project now, but should be able to get some up tonight

There are much better examples available of both daggers, Pricey, yes, but you may want to consider Quality over Quantity when purchasing high end Third Reich items, or else you will be stuck with a mediocre hard to sell parts daggers or worse...   Again just my thoughts   Leigh     

Hello and welcome to the WMF!

A modern group to an Army NCO who served in Bosnia in 1995 and later in Afghanistan.       

Better safe than sorry and as Preppy Picker said, there shouldn't have been a tricolor decal on this later war M42. That alone with a questionable eagle, is enough imo to return it. I'm glad the seller was understanding and refunded you. Single decal LW helmets are pretty common so with patience, you should be able to land a nice, solid example  : )

Can we have pictures of the navy helmet?

Thanks for the info! He is asking too much for the pair at that range so I will have to pass for now! 

Yeah seems a little too good to be true. I wound up returning it for a full refund and thankfully the seller was totally understanding. He doesn’t deal with German items so I don’t blame him for not knowing. 

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