79cm clean fullered blade etched with scrolling foliage, ropes, crowned fouled anchor and crowned Royal arms, regulation brass gothic hilt incorporating a crowned fouled anchor, folding side guard, lion's head pommel, wire bound fishskin grip, in its engraved brass mounted leather scabbard, complete with knot, together with a Third Reich Kriegsmarine officer's dagger by Eickhorn recovered from the U110, together with a quantity of research detailing Dodd's account of his service aboard HMS Bulldog and to include a letter of provenance detailing how the sword came into the collection from Dodd's family before it was subsequently sold as lot 109 in Bonhams Antique Arms and Militaria auction of 12th December 2006.