Who has Veteran acquired a Bagged and QC Tagged dagger?

The Thicket · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Right Here.

This may be a bit easier of a topic, the question is straight forward, Who has Veteran acquired any style dagger that was Bagged and Tagged with a QC tag..

Or with just a QC tag; what kind of age patterns did it display if found this way?
How close to mint was it? What type of dagger was it? When did you find it?

Lets see if this thread can get a bit more responce.

frankie · Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 3

About 25 years ago I found 3 SA daggers that a vet had. They had been in his attic since the late 40's and were in cloth bags and had the paper RZM tags around the handles. The bags were chewed by mice and because of high humidity the blades were total rust. I took them apart and sold the pieces.

The Thicket · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Right Here.

Super account; Frinkie, I have heard a number of folks say they have had like experiences, daggers that were baddly stored that were mint when brought home, but ended up in poor condition due to lacking storage..

One fellow I met many years ago in Florida called me about one of my adds with as he stated to unissued SA daggers with part of the paper bags.
These were the later chrome plated style RZM daggers that had been stored in a home in south Florida with no air conditioning at all.
The bags were eaten by roaches, and silverfish, the plating was all lifted off the pot metal base, the scabbard had age crazed to where the paint was falling off in chunks, and the blades were handled before they were stored and had sat for years with finger prints that had eaten into the blades surface.

torino · Joined: 15 Nov 2007 Posts: 10

I bought a bagged PS HJ from the widow of a vet. Neither were mint due to storage. She and I broke the lock off her husbands foot locker and he had the entire 3rd Army Battle of the Bludge after action report in there which was in three hugh volumns and was apparently his division copy. he was an S2 officer and she still has it.

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