GERMAN K98 BAYONET AND FROG MAKER MARKED 44 FNJ

This is a mint original German K98 bayonet marked 44 fnj indicating production by Alexander Coppel GmbH (aka Alcoso), Solingen. 

The bayonet has never been sharpened or re-blued. The bayonet is matching to its scabbard with the serial 2897 n and has nice Bakelite grips. The bayonet is in exceptional uncleaned, unsharpened and with matching numbers. 

The Waffenamp is also on the pommel. 

Nice original K98 frog with the numbers on the back witn  RB Nr:   1-1136-0018  

Received from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Museum, Canada, this was from a set of German field gear with 8 pieces hanging from the belt and y-strap . We have now separated everything from the German field gear grouping to sell it separately.  This bayonet is one piece of the group of 8.   

The museum was selling off some of there museum’s items, to make room for more.  The museum called it deaccessioning surplus museum artifacts.

The SS soldier who owned these pieces during WWII was SS Gunner, Waske. 

The museum numbers their items for inventory purposes and you will see that there is a very small white numbered sticker on this item put there by the museum.  They are very easy to remove.

BACKGROUND: The K98 bayonet was a modification of the already modified S84/98 bayonet that had been originally developed in 1915. Manufacture of this new modified bayonet began in 1934 with mass production beginning in 1936.

The K98 bayonet was a standard issue item and was accompanied by a bayonet frog to be worn on the reverse left side of the weight bearing waist belt. The K98 bayonet remained the standard issue bayonet through-out the war with minor manufacturing variations.