The Textbook Shooting Prize Clamshell Police Bayonet

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Seitengewehr für Polizei. Here's a rare private purchase transitional example that was featured in Wheeler's reference pg 148. The minty blade has a Jeweler inscribed dedication to the winner of a shooting competition for the class of 1932-33. The brass based nickel plated hilt is in good shape showing just light wear and nice patina. The grip plates are damage free just showing light wear. The tombac rivets are intact. 100% of the plating remains intact with no wear to the brass base. The obverse plate has a Weimar 6 sided emblem pinned to it. The clam shell is a hand enhanced beauty with burnished backgrounds. Scabbard shell shows bumps from where the runners have been pushing against it for the past 75 years. It has the two trim lines which run the length of each the edges. The stitching is all intact. The shell is fitted with, matching patinaed, undented nickel scabbard mounts. These have scalloped edges and show light wear. They are held by staples in the usual manner. The frog is in great shape as is the Rural portepee.