Roughly 25cm long, dual edged, nickel/silver plated, drop forged steel blade with a raised central spine and large flat ricasso. The blade is unmarked. The thick blackened leather washer is still intact. The cast alloy cross guard, langets, and pommel all have a matte nickel/silver plating. The obverse vertically oval langet has a raised, smooth outer edge encompassing an embossed second pattern, (1938), DRK eagle with a highly embossed swastika to its breast, on a slightly recessed, pebbled field. The reverse vertically oval langet also has the raised, smooth outer edge encompassing a slightly recessed, smooth field. The cross guard features two deeply recessed horizontal lines near both the top and bottom edges. The unique shaped, plain pommel has a multi-slotted, flush, tang screw to the top edge. The dagger has an orange celluloid grip (one small hairline crack) with ten raised, horizontal lines. The grip tapers slightly at both ends. The dagger comes with its original matte nickel/silver plated, magnetic sheet metal scabbard with a pebbled finished obverse and reverse and smooth side panels. The bottom tip of the scabbard is also smooth and has a scalloped tipped top. The scabbard has smooth integral hanger bands with hanger suspension ramps angled diagonally upward with circular cut-outs for the hangers. The scabbard has both of its original dome headed throat screws intact. Of Note: There were two versions of the DRK dagger scabbard, with one featuring rectangular hanger cut-outs, and the other having circular hanger cut-outs. The circular hanger cut-out scabbard was designed for the Social Welfare dagger, which although identical to the DRK Leader’s dagger, came with a different set of hangers.