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03-30-2011 04:50 PM
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
Hi, and welcome to the forum!
It is a K98 bayonet. Looks like a nice clean example.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
Ade, thanks for the warm welcome. Do you have any other information about this type of bayonet? When I looked on-line most of the 1934 on bayonets had numbering on the scabbard and the bayonet. This has neither, it only has the makers mark and a small star like mark on the top of the blade near the handle. I think it's in great condition, I remember buying it at an auction when I was in my teens and I've always kept it in a footlocker.
How collectable/rare is this? I would think it's collectible otherwise you wouldn't have this forum right! But, rare? I have no idea. Thanks again!
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
It would appear to be a non military bayonet - made for the police or one of the other organisations in Third Reich Germany who carried rifles and bayonets.
Police bayonets often have a marking on the spine of the blade near the crossguard.
P D Luneschloss of Solingen were makers of edged weapons - swords bayonets and daggers - from the late nineteenth century to the end of WW2.
If you scroll down the page on this site
k98 bayonets data and registry
You will see some more examples of Coppel police bayonets (and lots of others as well)
Regards
Richie
Additional ... Just seen your post - the star you mention is a police marking - often that is all although very occasionally you find a unit marking on the crossguard.
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
It will be a commercially made version as opposed to an Army issue example. Hence the general lack of markings and serial numbers. Yours is Police acceptance marked.
You can find out more here:
k98 bayonets data and registry
Don't attribute the date of the leather frog to that of the bayonet itself. The bayonet will most likely be later.
All K98 bayonets are very collectable. I would not rate it as rare, but well worth having.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
Thanks again to both of you. It almost certainly seems to be like this one from Richie's link k98 bayonets data and registry No number on the handle like one of the later versions. I am surprised that the frog doesn't match the bayonet as you say.
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
Looks like Richie beat me to it!
They might always have been together. But I did not want you to think that the frog alone would determine the date of the bayonet.
With luck you might find one for sale, now you know exactly what you have, to get a better idea of value.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
...its made by alcosa.....jim
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
Thanks again for all the help. I took the wood grips off last night and saw these numbers stamped inside. Do they mean anything to the date it was made?
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Re: Need help identifying this bayonet
Nothing to do with the date I'm afraid - they are just a serial or assembly number.
Richard
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