Germany, Hj. A 1942 Wachgefolgschaft Dress Bayonet, By Carl Eickhorn Hold 1895 in Petrolia

1895 in Petrolia

Aquitania on May 18

contact marks from use

Mellish of Cape Town

1 Air Command) to Towse

Germany, Hj. A 1942 Wachgefolgschaft Dress Bayonet, By Carl Eickhorn Hold 1895 in Petrolia(HJ Bajonett). An extremely well preserved HJ Wachgefolgschaft dress bayonet, measuring 405 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 250 mm long polished magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and semi sharpened lower edge. A fuller runs the length of each side of the blade. Acid etched onto the obverse is an inscription of H. J. WACHGEFOLGSCHAFT, while the reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN,