Municipal “Cut-Down” - Seitengewehr für Polizei by Carl Eickhorn. The plated bade on this one looks good! It retains a nice and bright mirror like finish, The sharp “Cut-Down” tip has some stain. The scabbard does not fully seat right up to the hilt due to shrinkage over the past 80 years. This is quite common and likely the reason a buffer was added at some point. The blade rates a solid exc+. The black (municipal) leather scabbard body looks great! It has minor scuffs yet retains a nice finish. It continues to retain all of its stitching. The four vertical lines running through it giving it that finishing touch of German detail. As with most police bayonets the leather has bumps from the runners pushing on it for 80 years. The nickel-silver based plated scalloped scabbard fittings remain in excellent condition, matching the hilt in color and patina. Both staples, frog lug and throat retaining screw remain intact. The scabbard, spine and hilt are marked "X 25" to the side. The solid nickel hilt depicts wonderful burnished detail throughout, with the oak leaves, acorns and highly detailed pommel eagle. It is slotted and the steel puch button function properly. The multi-toned stag grip plates are tightly secured with two steel rivets. The centrally placed first pattern aluminum police eagle is properly pined and retains nice detail. Included is a K98 combat frog with a Police portepee which looks to have been on there a very long time. The majority of these "cut down" police bayonets were constructed for the Weimar period and originally fitted with a 17" blade, a clamshell device on the obverse & a Weimar star grip emblem. In July 1936, the police agencies were centralized into one organization. With the new regulations these bayonets had their blades ground down to 13", the grips were shortened (which explains the odd grip holes that are frequently but not always seen on these bayonets, sometimes filled with wax, sometimes not) and the Weimar grip emblems were replaced with the police Third Reich emblem.
Rating: | Exc+/Exc++ |
Item Number: | POL-30264 |
Price: | $1,099.95 USD |
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