Rare Third Reich SS (Schutzstaffel) Dress Dagger with Full Ernst Röhm Dedication on Artificial Damascus Honour Blade, the dagger is what would be described as fresh out of the woodwork and has never been cleaned or played with. The stained grip has the original early type eagle but the SS runes have been removed. All the early fittings have a uncleaned patina with areas of Verdigris. The scabbard has some surface rusting to the anodised centre. Original leather vertical hanger attached with single belt loop fitting. The grip fittings are stamped with a ‘S’ in a circle to the interiors. Reverse of the guard is stamped with ‘I’. The double edged blade is produced with an artificial Damascus pattern with the motto ‘Meine Ehre heist Treue’ within oakleaves and the reverse has the full Ernst Röhm dedication ‘In herzlicher Kameradschaft Ernst Röhm’ (In heartfelt comradeship Ernst Röhm). The blade has no makers mark. The blade tang has raised ‘936’. Originally the motto and dedication was possibly with gold leaf but this has worn away. The blade measures 22cms, overall 37 ½ cms. The honour dagger of Ernst Röhm was instituted in 1934 and was issued to SS members who had served before December 1931 and had continued service until this date. After the night of the long knives an order was given to remove this dedication from the blade so to find complete examples are extremely rare. It is believed that only 9,900 Röhm dedications were produced on SS daggers compared to 125,960 SA daggers.