Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet dated 1904 with Scabbard and Frog - Regiment Marked Original Machine Guns and go not to meddle

and go not to meddle with Mid-Lothian Boys

Mostly coded "WA" for Hugo Schneider A

Displaying USAAF wings

known as “O’Ryan’s Roughnecks

the liner is also marked MERKLE

Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet dated 1904 with Scabbard and Frog - Regiment Marked Original Machine Guns and go not to meddleOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1898 with the new Mauser bolt action infantry rifle the military adopted this long bayonet, the Seitengewehr (Sidearm) M1898. This longer bayonet gave an Infantryman the ability to bring a Cavalryman down from his horse, due to the bayonets long reach. Of course Cavalry was soon becoming a thing of the past and these long bayonets were being surpassed by different and shorter versions. At the start of WWI in 1914