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11-30-2012 11:57 PM
# ADS
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
Can't tell you about the markings, but recall that brown scabbards were
used by the Luftwaffe. This is a very nice matching bayonet.
The blade is mint. I wonder if it's been re-blued.........?
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
Yes you are right about the color, never seen those stamps on a LW frog though...
We will see about the blade when it gets here. I will post more pics ASAP....
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
Look forward to seeing them, HB.........!
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
nice matching bayonet. congrats... i concur with Walkwolf. Appears to be Luftwaffe... never seen markings like that.
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
Nice bayo. But it looks to me the R.A.D and other were punched in at a later time IMO.
Never seen a RAD marked frog before?
Eric
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
The bayonet looks to be a nice one from a scarcer maker. And whatever else it might be, the frog does not look like a Luftwaffe service frog, nor is it a brown German Police service frog. FP
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
Hello,
the frog is damaged by cutting of piece in the front section. IMO the markings are not original... R.A.D. is Reichsarbeitsdienst... K.S.L. is useless.
Without rivets this is a dress Luftwaffe or Police Frog... i think more a police frog.
When under arms, the RAD had become weapons and equipment from the Wehrmacht. RAD men usually don´t wore a dress bayoent etc.
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
Hi HB,, I agree with Eric also on the stamping as it does look it was punched at a later date. The stamping is more notiecable on the left side of the letter "A" on RAD,,as you can see where the leather breaks between the "R" and the "A". ......A period stamping would not show this breakage as the leather would not be brittle during the period. I am not sure of the frog itself,, but the other members who commented would know better.
Can someone find a comparison frog and post a photo of it? This would help greatly in answering some questions. Regards Larry
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re: K98 bayonet with special frog ?
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