Original German WWI Private Purchase Dress Trench Fighting Knife Bayonet with Scabbard by Carl Eickhorn French Flags drummers in a Corps of

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Offered in excellent display condition still retaining much of the heavy blue/black finish on the receiver

with a version date of 3

JAMES FORSYTHE (ST

Raised for the first time at the Bendlerstraße Building (Wehrmacht Headquarters) in Berlin on November 7

Original German WWI Private Purchase Dress Trench Fighting Knife Bayonet with Scabbard by Carl Eickhorn French Flags drummers in a Corps ofOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a very interesting private purchase trench knife bayonet, the design of which very closely follows that of the Kurzes Seitengewehr M1898 05 Dress Bayonet, with the checkered bakelite grips & birds head pommel. Intended for use on the Mauser GEW 98 rifle, the bayonet design is based on the earlier M1871 84 bayonet with a 10 inch blade, and the first model of these were converted from those bayonets. This