Rare Long Personalized KS/98 "Brandenburger" Bayonet. ACS, scales TM. The regiment "Brandenburg" was constituted as Sonderverband z.b.V.800 (Special Unit on Special Assignment) in late August 1939, and named after its garrison town. It was originally a commando unit under control of the OKW Counter-Intelligence Agency. Nickel-plated hilt fittings show light surface wear/minor crazing with one spot of lifting on the obverse center of the crossguard. Black bakelite grip plates are perfect with no cracks or chips, and hilt is complete with green felt plug. Plated blade measuring 24.5cm in length grades EX+, showing surface wear/runner marks primarily near tip, with some minor lifting to plating on obverse ricasso adjacent to brown leather blade buffer pad. Obverse blade is jeweler-engraved in double-line block letters, "zbV Soldat 1. Aufbaukompanie Erich Koitzsch", with the reverse blade jeweler-engraved in double-line block letters, "Hauptmann von Hippel zbV 800-Brandenburger". Research in the 1939 German Army ranklist indicates that Hauptmann von Hippel was assigned to Abwehrabteilung II (Counter-Intelligence Battalion II) under the control of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. This listing matches exactly the organizational assignment of Regiment "Brandenburger". Herr von Hippel appears in the 1944/45 ranklist of the German Army as an Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) assigned to "OB.KDO. d. W. (Abw II)" (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abwehr Battalion II). Photocopies of documentation are included with the bayonet. Dent-free steel scabbard grades VG+, retaining approximately 50/60% of the black enamel, with much crazing and lifting primarily to center obverse, and is complete with black leather bayonet frog in VG+/excellent condition. Rare personalized bayonet from a Commando Unit, complete with documentation, recently obtained in Germany. EX (25896) $1,050.