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Long KS/98 Bayonet w/Double-Etched Blade, Retailer's Mark, Frog & Portepee. Carl Eickhorn, Squirrel holding Sword stamped TM. Nickel plated over gray metal hilt fittings show only minor wear/age/patina with red felt plug is in the pommel slot. The black bakelite grips are perfect. The plated blade is excellent with only minor runner marks/ age. The plated blade measuring 24.7cm in length grades EX+ showing minor runner marks/age, but no pitting or nicks to cutting edges. Obverse blade features Carl Eickhorn etch pattern Nr. 3220 with a ribbon band and standard remembrance of service time motto surrounded by oak leaves with raised oak leaf wreath, stahlhelm and crossed rifles at tip end and Wehrmacht eagle at ricasso end of the etched panel. Obverse ricasso is stamped with the two-line, retailer's mark, "Peter Kolb Amberg". Reverse blade features Carl Eickhorn etch pattern Nr. 3223 inscribed in raised Gothic letters "Infanterie Regiment No 41 Amberg, Bayr. Ostmark". Blade retains 100% of the light gray background frosting in the etched panels and is complete with brown leather blade buffer pad. Dent-free, steel scabbard retains approximately 80% of the original black enamel. The black leather, foru-rivet, double-stitcheed frog grades EX++ showing minor wear/ age with reverse stamped, "L. Krumm Langfeldt, Offenback a. Main.and above 1941". The green/silver NCO portepee grades VG+ showing age/wear and appears original to the frog. Superior example. Ex+ (25347) $1,100


 

 


 

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