Weimar pioneer bayo?

[inimicus]

This imperial bayo seems to have bakelite grips and the maker is scarce - move-werke, walter & co., muhlhausen in thuringen.

Can someone please i.d. It's use? In one area it seems under what appears t/b period paint is nickel (?). But most of the hilt looks t/b plain steel. The blade is polished steel. Grips arent the elongate 'diamonds' seen on wwi dress types.

And also the 'snoutless' bird head pommel seems a bit unusual on this type bayo given the long guard.

So, some transitional i'm guessing.... Help appreciated. Thanks fellas.

[inimicus]

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[Ron Weinand]

This type pommel is used by this company on their bayonets. Also, black hilt painted WWI style is sold to officers as a extra seitengewehr and most have a grip cypher.

[inimicus]

Many thanks ron - hoped you'd chime in. I see no sign of the imperial of other cypher having been there.
And, in wwi i believe nickel was used much less for blades than in the weimar and iiid reich and that factory polishing steel blade blanks was the norm early on correct?
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[Ron Weinand]

I have had a couple of odd bayonets from this company, very high quality and, since these were private purchase pieces, a little better finish and workmanship IMO. As they were not TR, I sold them.

[inimicus]

Thanks again for your expertise. I dont associate this maker with the hitler years; i guess by then they'd gone belly up. Possibly a minor producer from the get-go?

[Billy G]

I have a PSS with Walter & Co, Mulhausen which I always presumed was a distributor because the other ricasso was maker marked by Gebruden Hartkopf.

[inimicus]

nice pss billy, to state the least. maybe on my bayo the 'move-werke (maker) was combined with distributor name. dunno but anyhow this mark must be on the scarce-to-rare side doncha' reckon...

btw - also posted on g'daggs.