Important present-day hunting knife. Handle in deer antler au naturel carved in bas-relief with the von MELZL family coat of arms encircled by the Order of Saint-Michel. Chased and gilded brass mounting. Wild boar pommel. Handle with two reinforcing rods decorated with laurel friezes. Guard with two straight fluted quillons with two inverted dogfish heads. Keyboard with double hunting horn and stag's head. Important blade signed P. KNECHT IN SOLINGEN, round-backed, fully engraved on one half with gold background of hunting scene, and engraved on both sides on the 2nd half: "Dem königlichen Forstmeister HERRN von MELZL Ritter des VENDIENST - ORDENS vom hl.MICHAEL" ("The Royal Forester Mr. von MELZL, Knight of the Order of Merit of Saint Michael") And "gewidm von dem Forstpersonale des Königl FORSTAMTS KEMPTEN July 1854" ("Presented by the staff of the forestry office, Kempten July 1854") Patent leather-covered scabbard with two large gilded and chased brass fittings. One-ring cap decorated with laurel friezes and oak branches, containing a knife-type cofferdam with deer antler handle and cap en suite. Hat knob with the sovereign's number "M" (Maximilian II) under a royal crown. Signed on the back "Johann Stroblberger München". Bouterole decorated with laurel friezes, foliage, hunting trophies and gadroons. B.E. Circa 1854. A photograph of Wilhelm von Melzl, his daughter and his son-in-law, Carl von Leonrod, in Bavarian uniform. Johann Stroblberger, knife forger active in Munich in the mid-19th century.