Close Combat/Trench Knife, Nahkampfmessser

The knife features a roughly, 16cm long, drop forged steel construction, non-fullered, blade with a long top swedge and a length, including the hilt, of roughly, 28cm. One side of the ricasso is well marked with a stamped, Luftwaffe style, waffen-amt 6. Close combat indicating the knife was an ordnance issue item. The knife has a natural steel, horizontal, flat, scalloped tip, double crossguard and nicely contoured, carved, natural softwood grips. The blade is sharpened. The grips are secured to the blade tang by three small, dome headed, steel rivets. The knife comes complete with its original, black painted, sheet metal scabbard. The scabbard has its small, throat retaining, rivet intact to the obverse and a triple prong, spring steel, retaining clip with two, small, retaining rivets to the reverse.