Ww2 german bayonet frog

[warbuff]

Would this be an RBNr frog for a combat bayonet?

[Rancid66]

Late war combat bayonet frog, it looks to me like the original.

Regards
Vedran

[warbuff]

RBNr?

[Rancid66]

The Rbnr code was used from 1943 onwards and replaced the makers name and address (or company logo) on government contract uniforms, caps and field equipment and knives.

0/0014 Memel
0/0150 Cottbus
0/0155 Bretnig
0/0020 Konigsberg
0/0201 Pommen
0/2011 Elsass (Alsace)
0/0215 Stettin
0/0250 to 0/0259 Berlin
0/0261 Tangerhutte (Sachsen)
0/0267 Loburg
0/0274 Brandenburg
0/0331 Bleicherode
0/0332 Nordhausen
0/0343 Erfurt
0/0350 Leipzig
0/03XX Sachsen area
0/0355 Zeitz
0/0415 Bremen
0/0418 Stade (Hannover)
0/0421 Wilhelmshaven
0/0427 Leer (Hannover)
0/0428 Edewachterdamm (Oldenburg)
0/0430 Oldenburg
0/0433 Meppen (Hannover)
0/0450 Hannover
0/0434 Gildenhaus,Nordhorn,Berghaus,Schüttorf (Hannover)
0/0436 Stadtlohn (Westfalia)
0/0485 Jablunkau (Czech)
0/0496 Hamburg
0/0550 Köln / Wiesbaden
0/0556 Aachen
0/0560 Wuppertal
0/0561 Solingen
0/0572 Altenhundem (Westf.)
0/0639 Mainz
0/0650 Saarbrücken
0/0673 Wiesbaden
0/0675 Frankfurt am Main
0/0704 Westheim
0/0706 Bad Mergentheim
0/0708 Crailsheims
0/0710 Mosbach
0/0713 Lauffen and Bletigheim
0/0714 Ludwigsburg
0/0750 Stuttgart
0/0764 Tuttlingen
0/0842 Memmingen (Bayern)
0/0850 Munchen
0/0950 Nürnberg
0/1000 to 0/1025 Wien
0/1032 Obermühl

0/1305 Litzmannstadt
0/1325 Posen

Regards
Vedran

[Larry C]

Vedran for the rest of the collectors including myself can you give us a small summary of the meaning of Rbnr and its function? I would like to paste this information to K98 Thread along with their codes. This would go well together when a member or visitor is seeking information on a K98 and its frog together.

Are those cities distribution points?
What did the Rbnr stand for?
Its function?
What makers it affected?
Its origin, if possible,,and was there any Pre 1943 data for the leather frog?

This would be a great resource Regards Larry

[Frogprince]

Vedran, A valuable addition to the data bases. Well done! Fred

[Rancid66]

I think we should all thank to Adrian Stevenson.
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/heer-...system-239110/

Regards
Vedran

[Larry C]

Absolutely Vedran, Thank you for the update and we are Thankful for Ade creating this resource. Good eyes Vedran for finding it!

I added it to the existing K98 registry data thread. https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/dagge...d-rbnr-233978/

[Adrian Stevenson]

Glad to know someone has been reading my work. I have it pinned in the field gear and uniform forums.

I can add some futher detail, while I do not have the details for the exact maker, I can tell you that "0655" was out of the town of Kaiserslautern (Bayern).

Cheers, Ade.

[Frogprince]

Kudos to Adrian for all of your hard work . In some respects this seems to be something of a “Rosetta Stone” for a portion of the work by the late Anthony Carter - whose very untimely passing was a loss to us all. With as I recall three of the Reichsbetriebsnummern already possibly deciphered by other means, so this list is going to be a valuable asset along with the Liste der Fertigungskennzeichen (Manufacturers/factory identification markings list - ie: the dated letter codes.). With the 0/0850 (Munich) already suggesting to me that some of these may have been for a LAGESA - LAGO - L.L.G. - (Landeslieferungenossenschaft der Sattler) type of structure, that we would view as a collective or collection point. With the manufacturing characteristics and style of the 0/0850 marking for example, I believe on a frog from a maker in Vienna. That tentative identification will of course need to be verified, as I don’t have access to it at the moment. Once again, Well Done!! Best Regards to All, Fred