114 - Three bayonets Eickhorn, Tiger, Mundlos 84/98 new pattern, scabbards, 1st half of the 20th century

Three bayonets Eickhorn, Tiger, Mundlos 84/98 new pattern, scabbards, 1st half of the 20th century Steel, Bakelite and silver-coloured metal. Three bayonets, each with black steel scabbard with ball finial. 1) Long dress bayonet with silver-coloured hilt, bird's head pommel and black, chequered grip scales; bright back-edged blade with narrow fuller, on the ricasso the oval pictorial mark with squirrel and the legend “CARL EICK…” and “SOLINGEN” of the firm Carl Eickhorn. Blade with rust specks, scabbard lacquer rubbed. 2) Bayonet 84/98 new pattern with brown-black, diagonally grooved Bakelite grip scales, on the ricasso the maker's name “MUNDLOS” (production probably 1937 to 1940), on the opposite side on the blade root the stamped weapon number “8288” above “a”, matching the number of the scabbard, on the back of the blade punched “39”; bluing largely rubbed, overall age patina. 3) Short dress bayonet with silver-coloured hilt, bird's head pommel and black, chequered grip scales, on the ricasso the pictorial mark of a striding tiger, on the opposite side the rubbed lettering stamp “TIGER” above “SOLINGEN”; one grip scale with a deformed area, blade with stains. Condition commensurate with age. L. 34.5 to 40 cm, blade lengths 20 to 25 cm. Dress bayonets were privately purchased walking-out side arms of soldiers, made after the model of the short bayonet 98 and worn off duty. Carl Eickhorn in Solingen, founded in 1865, used the squirrel with sword as its pictorial mark; the Tigerwerk Lauterjung marked its products with the striding tiger. The Magdeburg sewing machine factory Mundlos, in existence since 1863, produced bayonets 84/98 new pattern for the Karabiner 98k as an armaments company from 1935 to 1944; the name “MUNDLOS” written out in full replaced the code S/244 and from 1940/41 was replaced by the letter code “ab”.