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The book appeals to the beginning and the advanced collector, detailing all ss edged weapons types, details, and nuances. German ersatz bayonets international military antiques. This is one of about 80 varieties of ersatz bayonets made during the war. Exploring the dress daggers and swords of the german ss. German colonial uniforms bayonets of the imperial german. This never occurred, due to eastwest reunification. Offered for sale from a private collection, additional pictures on request but please expect a delay as all items are in secure storage. It was important for the military to have equal length of rifle including bayonet as the main enemy the french. These include chapters on the east german km87 bayonet, the north korean. A collectors pictorial book of bayonets, nice little hard back book complete with dw. Wwii german fire police stag handle dress bayonet wwii was a period where the germany produced a large number of edge weapons. Item number869 makerunknown, 2nd model luftwaffe dagger engravingnone overall length16.
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