Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet by Simson dated 1903 with Scabbard, Frog & Troddel - Saxony Marked Military Awards Medals Badges Insignia Post war manufacture on WW2

Post war manufacture on WW2 era machines

The packet has not been torn open

The desk appears like a brief case measuring 20” x 7” x 14”

and Major William Cameron

Vollmer Werke

Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet by Simson dated 1903 with Scabbard, Frog & Troddel - Saxony Marked Military Awards Medals Badges Insignia Post war manufacture on WW2Original Item: Only One Available. In 1898 with the new Mauser bolt action infantry rifle the military adopted this long bayonet, the Seitengewehr (Sidearm) M1898. This longer bayonet gave an Infantryman the ability to bring a Cavalryman down from his horse, due to the bayonets long reach. Of course Cavalry was soon becoming a thing of the past and these long bayonets were being surpassed by different and shorter versions. At the start of WWI in 1914