Original German WWI Private Purchase Dress Trench Fighting Knife Bayonet by Nahkӓmpfer with Scabbard & Period-Repaired Grip German Afrikakorp 132 and a heavy proof

132 and a heavy proof mark together with the A

Pressing it fires the gun

According to Mitcham and von Stauffenberg in The Battle of Sicily

which is the correct three leaf type for the Type I muskets

Steel Pots Volume II by Chris Arnold

Original German WWI Private Purchase Dress Trench Fighting Knife Bayonet by Nahkӓmpfer with Scabbard & Period-Repaired Grip German Afrikakorp 132 and a heavy proofOriginal 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