Small Police Clamshell Bayonet
Price: Sold
Description: This outstanding Clamshell Bayonet is the smaller type that would normally have been carried by an officer.
The detailing to the pommel is extremely fine, and the oak leaves on the obverse guard both remain crisply detailed. The guard has the oak leaves on each side. Below this is a fine clamshell bearing a crisply detailed Prussian eagle.
The grip plates are excellent quality antler, with pleasing brown and gold tones. These plates are retained by nickel rivets with dressed heads on the obverse, and the silvered Police insignia is a beauty that shows little wear.
The blade is perfect. It measures 10.5 inches long, with a narrow fuller and a stepped end and is unmarked.
The black leather scabbard shell is in excellent shape, and has the standard dual trim lines on the edges. The rounded edge mounts are also excellent, being retained by staples.Attached to the scabbard is its original black leather frog maker marked and dated 1940 on the center reverse.
An extremely nice Clamshell Bayonet retaining its original dated frog; excellent + overall.
