Original German WWII Rare Rural Police Short Dress Knife Bayonet by Alexander Coppel with Scabbard and Frog French Helmets this is a marvelous piece

this is a marvelous piece of British SCOTS GUARDS Militaria History

On the front is a massive Death's Head (Totenkopf) helmet plate in white metal

The compass card itself is also maker marked

as it was mostly conscripts

and his wife passed in 2015

Original German WWII Rare Rural Police Short Dress Knife Bayonet by Alexander Coppel with Scabbard and Frog French Helmets this is a marvelous pieceOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely and rare Rural Police Short Dress "Walking Out" Knife Bayonet by Alexander Coppel of Solingen. As with other dress bayonets, choice of blade length was left to the purchaser, usually either the nickel plated short (25cm) or long (33cm) version, however police bayonets are almost always the "long" version, with a "cut down" style blade. This example however has something we have not seen before: an