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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 11076560, member: 20148&quot;]I too think it is a letter opener Carman, perhaps from some re-cycled material, hence the two grooves. Possibly it was a locking pin of some sort?</p><p>The swastika, yes in this case Nazi. The leaves look like oak leaves, which was a common symbol in bothe the SA (Sturm Abteilung), and the SS ( Schutz Staffel). The oak leaves were commonly used for the higher ranks as rank definition, in the SS a Standartenführer (Colonel) would have an oak leaf on his collar for example, and would go up to have as many as three oak leaves and three pips, SS-Oberstgruppenführer.</p><p>Many edged weapons in the Nazi era also used the oak leaf design, it was a common design.</p><p><br /></p><p>The person that I would contact to ask about this item would be Tom Wittmann, there isn&#039;t much that he doesn&#039;t know about edged weapons and militaria from this era!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://wwiidaggers.com/welcome.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wwiidaggers.com/welcome.htm" rel="nofollow">https://wwiidaggers.com/welcome.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen one quite like this, so thank you for posting the pictures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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