Military Officer - January 2006 - (Page 55)

These Third Reich daggers are in great demand by edged weapons collectors. From left are the Red Cross Officer’s Dagger, the TENO (Technische Nothilfe — Technical Emergency Corps) Hewer, and probably the most sought of the Third Reich edged weapons, the SS Officer Dagger. Daggers: Sinor picked up his ﬁrst edged weapon, a Confederate “D” Guard Bowie knife, from a friend who dug it up not far from Jonesboro. “It was the ﬁrst complete one I had ever seen that had been dug. Of course, it was rusty and pitted, but it was real. I was holding history in my hands.” He now has a number of edged weapons in his collection. Sinor likes to ﬁnd his pieces from other collectors and reputable dealers and says, “Once you start collecting, you’ll know where to look.” Sinor’s daughter, Victoria, used to accompany her father to shows. “I hated them at ﬁrst, but I really got into the edged weapons when I saw a ‘hooker’s dagger,’ which is the small dagger prostitutes would strap around their thighs or slip in their boots. So lethal, so useful, and so sexy. Really mysterious,” she says. Victoria has struck off on her own to ﬁnd pieces for her collection, and now has ﬁve such daggers. “You could say I’m a second-generation collector,” she says. “My dad even gave me a dagger one year for Christmas.” Lt. Col. Rudy Schulz, USA-Ret., is a Californian by birth. Schulz’s father fought in World War II — for the German Waffen SS — as a 16-yearold. Schulz’s grandfather died ﬁghting as a German soldier in Croatia. For this reason, Schulz developed a keen interest in the Third Reich, collecting German militaria in general, with a certain afﬁnity for edged weapons. “I ﬁnd that through my collecting, I am in touch not just with world history but [with my] family history as well.” Schulz’s ﬁrst edged weapon was a German hunting knife, a “Baeren- Dug Pocket Knives: Some collectors prefer pieces that have spent extended periods in the ground. These Civil War-era pocket knives were dug up from Virginia battlefields. Pocket knives were carried by just about every soldier on both sides during the Civil War. Collectors can own these relics of the Civil War for relatively little money. PHOTOS: TOP, THE ART ARCHIVE/GUNSHOTS; ABOVE, COURTESY CIVIL WAR PRESERVATIONS JANUARY 2006 MILITARY OFFICER 55

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