№121148Dagger of the Labor Front (RAD) of the 1934 model.

Germany. Third Reich. Dagger of the Labor Front (RAD) of the 1934 model.

Cleaver wore persons holding the rank of Corporal RAD until 1945, and officers until 1937. During the war, RAD units were used as engineering troops in the construction of roads and airfields, and also took part in clearing the rubble of bombed cities, storing and transporting trophies and carrying out other work in the occupied territories in which hand force could be involved.

The cleaver had a steel, flat, single-angled, slightly curved blade, significantly expanding towards the bottom. There is a narrow dollar along the edge. On the front there is an inscription in Gothic font - "Arbeit adelt" - "Labor ennobles." The handle is metal, with two horn pads. The head of the handle is cast, metal, in the form of an eagle beak. The cross is straight, flat, with two longitudinal grooves, asymmetrical, with one rounded, curved upward on the side of the blade end. All parts of ephesus are cast from white metals as a whole and polished. Sheath straight, metal, painted black. The sheath device consists of a long and wide mouth and a tip in the form of a shovel with a pointed end. The upper part of the sheath and the tip with a smooth background are decorated with geometric ornaments and the image of the emblem of the Labor Front. At the mouth is soldered a long rectangular bracket for the belt of the collar.

The total length is 400 mm, the length of the blade is 245 mm.