MATCHED RURAL POLIZEI DRESS BAYONET & FROG (Seitengewehr für Landjäger Polizei)
Price: Sold
DESCRIPTION: Reissued M98/05 Prussian police un-slotted dress bayonet. Long, bright, nickel/silver plated, drop forged steel blade having fullers running short of the tip end. Double marked ricasso to ASC / Alexander Coppel. Stag grip panels having Police Eagle insignia to the right grip panel. The bayonet has an ornate, nickel/silver plated alloy, single upswept cross guard and stylized eagle head pommel. Both scabbard throat & guard matching marked: ‘L.Mg.92.’ Beautiful brown leather scabbard having nickel alloy fittings in its original heavy brown frog.
BACKGROUND: June 1936, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was appointed to the newly created position of Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern, (Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior), effectively giving him full control of all police agencies within Germany. As a result of this appointment and the restructuring of all the separate German state police into a single national police force, new regulations were instituted in July 1936 to bring about uniformity in dress for all police through-out the country. One of the new uniform regulations was the introduction of a standardized bayonet based on the earlier Prussian Landespolizei bayonet. The bayonet came in an unslotted dress model and a “T” slotted service model.
