Help ID bayonet

**Mattbh89** · 03-15-2018, 05:34 PM

This was a bit of an impulse buy from my local gunshop. Pretty sure I overpaid by about 2x the value but I got suckered in chatting to the guys in the shop.
Would be nice to know if it is atleast genuine.
From what I can tell it's 18th division from the eastern front.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 03-15-2018 05:34 PM

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**kradman** · 03-15-2018, 05:39 PM

Hi welcome to the Forum , we will need some photos

**Mattbh89** · 03-15-2018, 05:52 PM

Pics

**Mattbh89** · 03-15-2018, 05:55 PM

**Mattbh89** · 03-15-2018, 05:57 PM

Sorry for the double pictures , struggling with mobile site and poor internet connection.

**nbushyager** · 03-15-2018, 06:04 PM

bayonet is fine, but I'm very weary of that etching.

**Mattbh89** · 03-15-2018, 06:06 PM

Pics

**Frogprince** · 03-15-2018, 06:20 PM

The bayonet itself appears to be a genuine (but missing all or nearly all of its original blued finish) early S. 84/98, from E. Pack & Son judging from the "S" code that is not that clear in image. Possibly in a later date scabbard (hard to tell from the imaging) along with a Czech bayonet frog. But unfortunately (as was already mentioned) the etching on the blade is unquestionably postwar. Best Regards, Fred

**MilitariaOne** · 03-15-2018, 08:21 PM

Greetings Matt,

Check out Bob Coleman's post #6 here Knife Meine Ehre heisst True these post-war etched K98 bayonets come up quite often for folks who wonder if the "good deal" they just got was really a good deal or not.

V/r Lance

**Mattbh89** · 03-15-2018, 08:36 PM

Bit depressing I just lost £350 . ;-( never using that gunshop ever again. Was the first part of my collection. I have allot of British second world war bayos. Fell for the this is a dead knife b/s. May see if I can take it back with some wild excuse and try get part of what I paid for it.