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Well, thats it folks. Please post new TM's. We are all eager to see what you've got.

Great job Terry!

Terry,

Sorry, I wouldn't have posted had I known you were in mid post(s). Really well done. Like Steve C. said, the shame of it is all the lost individual posts from others with pieces we may never see again. I feel sick thinking about it.

EXCELLENT !!!! AWESOME INFORMATION !!! Thank you for your efforts!

This is an edged weapon I´ve recently bought. It´s marked with BISMARCK. It looks like a short dress bayonet, but it´s missing the press stud at the pommel. The scabbard looks like to be from a trench knife. Any idea what it is or who has worn such an edged weapon?

Is there a photo of the blade. It could be a trench knife or a miniature. What is the blade length and overall length.

Here´s the Bismarck edged weapon between a short dress bayonet and a trench knife.

Blade length: 15 cm (5.9 inches)
Overall length: 25.5 cm (10 inches)

Here the blade

Blades

I think its a trench knife. Most miniature bayonet scabbards would not have leather belt loops and scabbard runners. The bayonets were made of lesser quality materials. I think you have a very nice trench knife. I'm not sure if Bismarck is a TM or something else Will look in some books when I get home.

Bismarck = August Müller KG, Solingen-Merscheid

The scabbard is similar to the early HJ honor bayonets which were purportedly made from leftover stock of Imperial & Weimar fighting knives. The quality on thes eknives was very good & the size looks similar too. That's my thought, a Weimar fighting knife.

Nice job Denny and Billy.

Denny

See where the MAX may go back to Indy.

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Originally posted by TKissinger:

Denny

See where the MAX may go back to Indy.

OFCOL!!!!

A version of A. Betz, Giessen

TKissinger:

I have seen, not necessarily on dress bayonets but on other blades, the following Eickhorn TMs:

double oval, smooth tail
double oval, smooth tail, C.E.
double oval, serrated tail
double oval, serrated tail, C.E.

The difference between them is the tail and the presence or absence of the letters 'C.E.' under the squirrel.

Does this variation exist in dress daggers?

John