A selection of bayonets

[Luciusdegeer]

Gentlemen,

I want to share my humble collection of Reichswehr and Wehrmacht bayonets with you. For the record (and for the search engines): there are two Weyersberg und Kirschbaum (W.u.K.) bayonets. It took me three years to find the first one (Pionier unit marked), and four months later (at the last Ciney show) I bought the other one (infantry unit marked) for... 50 euros! The guy who sold it thought it was a commercial bayonet...
There is a W.u.K. of 1927 and one of 1928. The infantry marked one has an incorrect mounted frog and Faustriemen, which will be changed. There is a S/240 (Herder) of 1935 ('G') and a S/177 (Pack) of 1937. Two of them are Coppel made, both in 1938, but one has 'red' and one has 'black' grips. Also a 'cvl' (Eickhorn) of 1941 and a 'cof' (Weyersberg) of 1943. All have matching numbers but the two W.u.K. ones, because these are never numbered...

Greetings,

Lucius

[AndyB]

Is hard to say from color of grips, but the red plastic grips should be on post 42 dated piece. The overall collection is nice, same as the AK web frog. best regards,Andy

[Luciusdegeer]

Hi Andy,

so the Coppel 1938 received new grips during it's 'career'? Makes sense. I saw lots of early-dated bayonets with 'red' grips. Perhaps the inside would tell more, but I'm reluctant to disassemble these bayonets. Some of the screws allready seem to have suffered from the handling by previous owners...

Anybody wants to share a W.u.K. from his collection? They are pretty rare but there's not too much information to be found on the net. Perhaps a Reichswehr-W.u.K.-thread should be started?


Greetings,

Lucius

[Luciusdegeer]

By mistake I posted a close-up two times. For the DAK- and web-collector, here's a close-up of my 'salty' web frog. Found on a flea-market some moths ago, definately not DAK-issue. Wasn't really looking for it, but kept it anyway.





Last picture is crappy, but I'm still learning and practising (see my other picture post... without pictures...)


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[REMUS]

Nice collection

I had about 15 of these bayonets,all diffirent maker,en all matching numbered.Unfortunately,I had to sell my whole collection. Nice to see these pics,reminds me of the ones I had.