Dress Bayonet Manufactures - 10/18/2008 02:10 AM
I thought I will write a short bio on manufactures of dress bayonets. If anyone has more info, please add to the thread. I will try to do one a week.
So here is the first.
Arthur Evertz, Solingen
Arthur Evertz was a manufacture of Third Reich edge weapons, which included swords, bayonets, and Luft. Heer, RLB, SA, HJ, daggers. They were located in Solingen Germany at Blumenstrasse 58. Tom Johnson’s book (Collecting The Edged Weapons of The Third Reich volume VIII) has a picture of Everts building. I know of two trade marks that were used on dress bayonets. The first TM has the initials AES within a square box; it was registered in Aug. 1938. The second TM, (A. Evertz, Solingen) in an arch seems to be the more common one of the two. There RZM number was M7/85. Arthur was the brother-in-law of Paul Seilheimer, another manufacturer of TR daggers. Arthur Evertz started out as a grinder before starting his company in 1925.
Below are two examples of their bayonets. The etched example shows an etch that Alcoso also used on there bayonets. In the book German Etched Dress Bayonets the author Wayne Techet theorizes that Alcoso, A. Evertz, and Paul Seilheimer were some of the companys that purchased etched blades from F. W. Holler.
So here is the first.
Arthur Evertz, Solingen
Arthur Evertz was a manufacture of Third Reich edge weapons, which included swords, bayonets, and Luft. Heer, RLB, SA, HJ, daggers. They were located in Solingen Germany at Blumenstrasse 58. Tom Johnson’s book (Collecting The Edged Weapons of The Third Reich volume VIII) has a picture of Everts building. I know of two trade marks that were used on dress bayonets. The first TM has the initials AES within a square box; it was registered in Aug. 1938. The second TM, (A. Evertz, Solingen) in an arch seems to be the more common one of the two. There RZM number was M7/85. Arthur was the brother-in-law of Paul Seilheimer, another manufacturer of TR daggers. Arthur Evertz started out as a grinder before starting his company in 1925.
Below are two examples of their bayonets. The etched example shows an etch that Alcoso also used on there bayonets. In the book German Etched Dress Bayonets the author Wayne Techet theorizes that Alcoso, A. Evertz, and Paul Seilheimer were some of the companys that purchased etched blades from F. W. Holler.