WWII Kingdom of Hungary Royal Guard Dagger Art Deco Knife 1930’s Leibstandarte

Description

For your consideration on offer is a very nice Kingdom of Hungary Royal Guard guardsman's dress dagger in exceptionally well preserved, clean condition.
This is a 1930’s – 1940’s, post WWI to WWII-era heavy bronze dress dagger.
Made in beautiful Art Deco style.
The Royal Guard of Hungary consisted of soldiers or armed retainers responsible for the protection of the Governor Miklós Horthy and other top statesmen. Members of this elite unit of the armed forces maintained special rights and privileges.
The Kingdom of Hungary, like every single other Central European medium-sized country, was one of the true victims of the Second World War, their natural path towards development and perhaps unrestricted democracy cut dead. A complex and, for the uninitiated, bizarre mix of Imperial pride, true Versailles and Trianon Treaties grievances (which continue to this day), fear of Bolshevism and a mildly Right-winged government made the country throw its lot with the Germans (and who would have said it was unwise, in 1940?), remaining more or less faithful to its ally to the bitter end. The epic of the Budapest siege, December 1944- February 1945 is second only to Stalingrad.