WW2 fighting knife from WKC with Abnahme???

[m-e-h-t]

Hi,

did one saw such an eagle stamp at a fighting knife before?

What is your feeling about originality of the stamping? The knife looks pretty good.

[m-e-h-t]

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[Reibert-Austria]

Hi !

Strange thing ...

Usually the grip-plates of the Infanteriemesser 42 are plain, (maybe this grooves are period-made by the owner of this knife himself ?).

The traders-mark looks pretty unclear and I never ever saw an eagle like this on any TR-blade stamped there like this way, (except the WL-Abnahme) ...
IMO, this is not a Waffenabnahme-Amt (WaA)-stamp.
But one, (almost similar), eagle is marked on one of my SG84/98 III´s, (there: it´s a police-mark).

Could you show macro´s of the stamp´s ?

BTW, WKC was one of the known maker´s of the IM 42, but, that´s not the question.

Cheer´s,

R.

[m-e-h-t]

the grooves are period handmade, that is correct. So you have better grip, if the handle gets wet.

Would it be possible to stamp a real knife post war, due to the harden process of the steel? I think, no.

I tried a closer pic of the stamp, not really good:

[Reibert-Austria]

I saw post-war markings on pistols, rifles, fighting-knives, tools, belts and so on ...

... at a flea-market day´s ago even a WaA-mark on the backside of a leather-scabbard on an south-american post war-knife ...

But, when I say I´ve never seen any markings like that on the blade of an IM 42 before I do not say, that this could´nt have been possible and it´s period-made actually ...

[AndyB]

I believe both stamps are fakes, the WaA with SS is totally nonsens.best regards,Andy