Opinion regarding this Alcoso Police baionet

[Maxblast]

Dear friends,

I had the possibility to purchase this baionet, however some points puzzeled me, so I let this one go away..

It appears to be an Alcoso Baionet, this one doesn't seem to be a reussied Weimar's baionet as the blade seem not to be shortened.

What I disliked on this baionet are the following things:

1° The SB 4268 Marking, this appeared too clean to me, the baionets I had in my hands had systematicaly some black dirt in the depht of their markings. As fakes haven't any marking of this type, I assumed it was recently done.

2° I never saw this kind of Alcoso logo on a Police Baionet, in addition, an other logo should be applied on the other side of the blade. Here it is missing.

The problem is that most of the references I own or I could find are Weimar's era modified baionets, I havn't a lot of experience with this model. I know that WKC bajonets of this type are extensively copied.

Has anybody a skilled opinion on this baionet? This would really interest me.

Best regards

[SwordFish]

Bayo looks fine to me. There were short and long police bayos, typically as you stated originating from Imperial and Weimar times. I'd refer to this one as a long, slotted bayo.

Don't know about the knot though.

[Billy G]

I have to agree, I think the bayonet looks fine form the pictures. I don't see any problem with the stampings, sometimes they're filled with gunk & sometimes they're not, I think that's just how it goes. I don't remember seeing this particular mark on a Polizei piece before but that isn't dispositive one way or the other.

The fact the blade isn't a cut down means it was ikely manufactured in the 3R zeit instead of being a reissued (& subsequently cut down) Weimar bayonet. The blade looks to be roughly the size the cut down ones are. Is it about 13"? A nice looking slotted bayonet IMO, how much was the seller looking for on it?

[Ed Sunday]

This particular Alcoso trademark is usually one we see on 3rd reich material which explains the non-cutdown type blade. In short, produced during the 3rd reich. By the way this is a real nice piece and I too would by it myself.

[Maxblast]

Many thanks for your feedbacks...