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03-18-2013 01:48 PM
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Re: Scabbard I.D
It looks like a standard combat scabbard ,take out the screw and remove the springs,there is probably something stuck down inside......Pete.
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Re: Scabbard I.D
As stated above by Pete, it looks to me like like an original military contract scabbard that was converted to a dress bayonet scabbard (not period IMO). With a new mouthpiece (added, it could be recycled from something else) with a rectangular inner opening in the manner of a dress bayonet. And a new round headed screw. Fred
Last edited by Frogprince; 03-18-2013 at 09:54 PM.
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Re: Scabbard I.D
It is the shape of the throat and screw that makes me wonder ,just does,nt seem right to me ,Thanks Paul.
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Re: Scabbard I.D
Paul, Over the years I may have seen a comparable example or two of the same kind of conversion. With on the plus side, it not looking like the work was done yesterday. But I also don't think that it was in 1935 either, which is when the scabbard was dated. Not perfect, but reasonably well done. The non-fillister head type screw also suggests to me that because of some missing parts that it may have made it a good candidate for a conversion by a previous owner? Regards, Fred
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Re: Scabbard I.D
Any Idea of a maker identity?
It is not the size of a Collection in History that matters......Its the size of your Passion for it!!
- Larry C
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Re: Scabbard I.D
Larry, A scarcer maker who was outside the Solingen based cluster of makers, it's Dürkoppwerke AG (S-code: "S/238 or S. 238") who went completely out of the bayonet business. And I believe then focused its efforts on making smaller caliber antiaircraft guns using the maker's letter code (Fertigungskennzeichen) "csd". Best Regards, Fred
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Re: Scabbard I.D
Thanks for the info Fred ,Pete .It was the fact of the code stamp on the scabbard of a dress bayonet that threw me having never seen one like it before.It came on a 2nd pat 84/98 sawback ,i knew the scabbard was not original to the bayonet when purchased , thinking someone at sometime had placed it in a 3rd pat scabbard has happens then i saw the throat and thought Mmmmm looks funny so posted it here,Thanks again much appreicated .Paul
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