Original Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely Matching Unit-Marked Metropolitan Police Long Dress "Walking Out" Bayonet by the legendary Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Co. of Solingen. A beautiful piece that comes with a scabbard with Berlin District police markings, which is fitted with a lovely early pattern black leather frog and officer's troddel knot.

The handle of the bayonet is lovely solid nickel plated alloy, featuring a lovely decorated "Birds Head" pommel without a bayonet slot, and an upswept cross guard decorated with oak leaves. The grip scales are made of beautiful stag horn with an antiqued police insignia firmly attached on one side. These are held with solid aluminum rivets and show no wiggle at all. There are holes in both scales next to the cross guard, something we often see, and there is a crack on the left grip scale. Both cross guard and eagle’s head are in very good condition, with most of the original nickel plating still intact, showing just a bit of wear and oxidation.

As with most police bayonets, there is a unit marking on the reverse guard of the bayonet:

S. B. 4337.

This indicates issue to the Metropolitan Schutzpolizei (Protection Police) of the Berlin, Officer 4337. The same unit marking is stamped onto the back of the scabbard, making this a lovely matched set.

The bayonet has a very nice approximately 33 cm (12.75 inches) long nickel-plated steel blade, which was forged "cut-down" style, with the fuller running to the tip. The nickel plating is still in very good shape, showing the expected wear from the runner and cleaning. There is a bit more wear near the tip area, but no major loss of the plating. The leather blade buffer is no longer present.

The blade ricasso is maker marked WEYERSBERG / KIRSCHBAUM & CIE / SOLINGEN with the firms trademark "Knights-Head" (Ritter-helm) logo on the opposite side of the ricasso. This company is a famous manufacturer of military swords and cutlery in Solingen, Germany - a city famous since the middle ages for its metal-working and craftsmanship in sword making. Per J. Anthony Carter's fine work GERMAN SWORD AND KNIFE MAKERS, the traditional manufacturing of swords at WKC dates back to the year 1774 when the Weyersberg first registered the ''Kings head'' as their trademark. Later in 1883 the company merged with the Kirschbaums and the company Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie was formed, which continued into the Weimar Period. It then rebranded as W.K.C. Waffenfabrik GmbH, and produced many edged weapons during the NSDAP Period. The company is still in operation today.

The scabbard is made of fine black leather, fitted with nickel plated brass, and is in very good condition. The leather does show age and finish loss, which has made it look somewhat brown where the black finish has worn away. The stitching is still intact, and there is no tearing or other damage. It is held in a very nice black leather frog, which is fitted with early aluminum rivets, which are now worn. It shows wear from age and use, and there is a faint maker mark on the back that we can no longer read.

There is a lovely leather and bullion officer's troddel knot tied around the frog, which has silver and red bullion strips going down the leather strap. There is additional red and silver bullion decoration around the slider, and on the very bottom of the 'knot'.

This is a wonderful unit marked early war metropolitan police bayonet by WKC with some great research potential! Complete with scabbard and frog, this bayonet is ready to research and display!

Specifications:
Blade Length: 13"
Blade Style: Single Edged with Fuller
Overall length: 17 1/2”
Crossguard: 2 1/4”
Scabbard Length: 14 1/2”