Bayonets

Long Weimar Rural Police Bayonet w/Frog (#27431)

$985.00

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Double maker marked blade with reverse stamped in three parallel lines WEYERSBERG, KIRSCHBAUM & Cie and SOLINGEN. Reverse stamped with armored Knight’s torso. Silver hilt fittings show light surface wear to eagle head pommel and oak leaf embellished crossguard. Dark brown, shortened stag horn grip plates show virtually no surface and only faint age with no cracks or chips. Third Reich period police grip emblem with police eagle surmounted by oak leaf wreath. Plated blade grades EX++ showing minor surface wear/runner marks but, no lifting or graying to plating and no nicks to cutting edge. Blade is correctly marked on the spine with “159” and an asterisk over the letter “B”. Black leather scabbard shows surface wear and 98% of the black leather with small surface depressions and is properly matched to the bayonet marked “159” on the scabbard throat and “S.D.VI. 381” to the reverse upper scabbard fitting. Frog grades EX and is not marked showing small areas of exposed brown leather and crazing. EX+/EX++