Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Dress Bayonet, with Frog and Portepee, by Carl Eickhorn Newly Listed until December 18th

until December 18th

et Rex” in capital letters

later participating in the invasion of Poland and rising to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and commander of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking

and other unidentified hallmarks

There is a good number of letters written home from this time

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Dress Bayonet, with Frog and Portepee, by Carl Eickhorn Newly Listed until December 18th(Ordnungspolizei Seitengewehr mit Koppelschuh und Portepee). An extremely well preserved Ordnungspolizei dress bayonet, measuring 39. 5 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 26 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to the tip. A narrow fuller runs the majority of the upper edge of each side of the blade. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN,