Original German WWII Heer Army Double Etched Short 98k Dress Bayonet with Scabbard & Leather Frog MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly Very impressive and most interesting

Very impressive and most interesting

All buttons are Vintage United Carr Snaps and are correctly back marked and date from the 1930s

which could easily be repaired if one so desired

They cleared lanes for landing craft by destroying the mine-bearing steel structures that the Germans had implanted in the intertidal zone

It has lost the original scabbard that came with it

Original German WWII Heer Army Double Etched Short 98k Dress Bayonet with Scabbard & Leather Frog MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly Very impressive and most interestingOriginal Item: Only One Available. The K 98 dress bayonet was a dress version of the combat style, and was worn by enlisted and NCO personnel for dress and parade occasions. The bayonets were finished with a high quality nickel plating, with stag or bakelite grip plates and black painted scabbard. The choice of blade length was left to the purchaser, being the nickel plated short (20cm) or long (25cm) version. There was usually a red or green colored