Original German WWI Private Purchase Dress Trench Fighting Knife Bayonet with Scabbard by Carl Eickhorn French Flags Offered in excellent display condition

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

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

As a result of such wholesale adoption of radically different ideas

which leaves the shoulder end open

JAMES FORSYTHE (ST

Original German WWI Private Purchase Dress Trench Fighting Knife Bayonet with Scabbard by Carl Eickhorn French Flags Offered in excellent display conditionOriginal 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