Schutzpolizei Bayonet by ACS, matching unit marked
Price: Sold
Description: This Schutzpolizei Police Bayonet is in excellent plus condition throughout; deep super detailed details overall highlight the grip & pommel; blade is flawless and mirror bright and is 13 inches long having a factory unsharpened edge with a fine, very sharp point; tight genuine antler grip panels on this slotted pommel; highly detailed aluminum Polizei emblem. The obverse ricasso is stamped with the’ balanced scales’ trademark of the ACS firm, while the reverse has the full name of the company and the location, “Alexander Coppel Solingen”. Both the reverse of the scabbard and crossguard are marked “S.M.V. 1755”. The scabbard is constructed from black leather and is also excellent and tight.. Nickel mounts with scalloped edges, retained by heavy staples. Comes with its original, maker stamped leather frog. A very clean, matching unit stamped bayonet.
Background: On June 17th 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.
