This Police Bayonet has the large proportion hilt, which is equipped with a mortise and rifle slot at the pommel. The mortise button works well. The pommel is decorated with engraved feathering and shows nice detail. The crossguard/quillon has raised, overlapping, oak leaves on the obverse. On the reverse, the crossguard area is regiment and unit marked with oak leaves at the quillon. The grip plates are genuine stag, and have good, tan and brown surfaces with nice grains. The edges have turned golden. These grip plates are retained by steel rivets. The original installer here took a little extra effort, and countersunk the holes in the stag, and the rivets nicely. The police insignia on the obverse is a genuine late war police bayonet grip eagle, having an oval wreath of oak leaves in the background, and an open winged police eagle superimposed. This eagle minimal wear to the breast feathering, head, and also to the wing feathers and wreath. The eagle grasps a wreathed swastika in his talons. The scabbard shell shows some age to the leather, but overall,excellent condition. The leather is decorated with the twin lines that accent both of the edges on each side. The police scabbard mounts are the solid, nickel type, having scalloped edges where they meet the leather. These mounts show a bit of carrying wear, and a few minor dings here and there. They are retained by staples on the reverse in the usual manner. The blade measures to 13″ with a good, sharp tip, being the common “cut down” version of the long Weimar blades. The nickeling to the blade is still bright, with some minor scratches. The obverse ricasso is stamped with the large oval and nicely marked Carl Eickhorn Solingen. Slotted types are a lot more difficult to find than the plain examples.

Multiple Inspection and service mark “w30” found on bayonet.

Overall: Great Condition – Expected wear with wage – please see photos.

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 a un-slotted dress model and a “T” slotted service model.