Red bakelite bayonet

[SRB]

red bakelite ddl 1940 bayonet.

[Frogprince]

It's decent enough from a scarcer maker, but most likely IMO a Yugoslavian (?) rework with the red type of Bakelite grips about three years out of sync (too early). Best Regards, Fred

[Jim P]

Definitely a Yugo rework, numbers on the frog stud and cross guard and like Fred say's, several years too early for late war grips on a 1940 Corts bayonet.

Jim

[Gunny Hartmann]

Not an original German made bayo with that rivetted/pinned crossguard!..

[Jim P]

Not an original German made bayo with that rivetted/pinned crossguard!..

Originally German, the Yugoslavs sometimes replaced the cross guard or just replaced the rivets through them. They didn't finish the bayo's as well as the Germans , so the rivets are more pronounced.

Jim

[SRB]

All the answers are here:
Bayonets of Germany 1933-1945

[Sleepwalker]

This is a german S94/98 but it was heavy overworked and renumbered after 1945 in former Yugoslavia.

You can recognize it at the very dark bluing and the numbers on the frog stud and guard.

Regards

[Martin Bull]

As a contrast, here's a pic of my bakelite-grip K98 bayonet, a farm relic from the Ardennes many years ago...