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02-22-2013 11:10 PM
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Re: Mauser K98 Bayonet help...
This one looks to be polished/cleaned pretty good and the screws on the bakelite grips are on the wrong side. this is not its original state and the bayonet has been taken apart.. it also looks if the backplate is missing?
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Re: Mauser K98 Bayonet help...
Normally these bayonets were blackened or blued. As said, besides
the mis-match, this one has been heavily cleaned/polished/plated.
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Re: Mauser K98 Bayonet help...
This was a military issue bayonet.
The bayonet was made by F W Holler [fze] in 1944 and the scabbard by E Pack [S177] in 1935 [G]
As the others have pointed out the bayonet and scabbard have been plated or very heavily polished and the flash guard has been removed.
Regards
Richie
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Re: Mauser K98 Bayonet help...
There´re such overworked bayonets in traditional, shooting associations.
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Re: Mauser K98 Bayonet help...
Thank you for your replies. I have always wondered about the highly polished finish but was convinced it was not a fake. It has been in peripheries of my collection for about a decade and was looking to sell it on. Now I kow I will feel comfortable selling it as an original. Thanks for your time gents.
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Re: Mauser K98 Bayonet help...
Mismatched but Authentic
It is not the size of a Collection in History that matters......Its the size of your Passion for it!!
- Larry C
One never knows what tree roots push to the surface of what laid buried before the tree was planted - Larry C
“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” - Winston Churchill
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Re: Mauser K98 Bayonet help...
As a practical matter, the service bayonets were treated the same as were the other service armaments carried by Wehrmacht forces, and for obvious reasons you don't see chrome, nickel plated, or bare metal government issue rifles or pistols. Plating changes tolerances, and a pistol that jams is of no use to a soldier. And while bluing won't prevent rust, it does impede it, and tends to minimize refections in combat situations. With what I found interesting in the very last days of the war was that were plans that were being made to move the Mauser factory. Which included not just the bluing operation, but provisions were also being made to move the phosphate ("Parkerizing") operation as well, that had a little earlier been adopted as a faster and more cost effective way to accomplish the same result as bluing. FP
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