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Posted By: Atliad Police bayonet or not? - 08/27/2022 05:56 PM
I have a bayonet that looks just like every other police bayonet I see except this has a different crest that the eagle crest they seem to always have. Does anyone know what this is?

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Posted By: Dave Re: Police bayonet or not? - 08/27/2022 06:07 PM
Welcome to GDC, Atliad

Dave
Posted By: ed773 Re: Police bayonet or not? - 08/27/2022 07:40 PM
Sports???
Posted By: Vern Re: Police bayonet or not? - 08/27/2022 08:11 PM
NSKOV veterans organization - National Socialist War Victim's Care (Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung), a social welfare organization for seriously wounded veterans as well as front line fighters of World War I.
Posted By: Billy G. Re: Police bayonet or not? - 08/28/2022 12:59 AM
I believe an NSKOV police bayonet model existed however they are a rare item. There have been a few over the years and all I’ve seen (except one) had issues making it likely they were postwar embellished.

On this one, why would the NSKOV use a Weimar cut-down police bayonet which was an issued piece? If the NSKOV ordered one or several, they would likely have been private purchase items without issue marks.

This was probably a standard police bayonet that someone denazified by removing the original emblem and some enterprising individual replaced it with an NSKOV stickpin.
Posted By: ORPO Re: Police bayonet or not? - 08/29/2022 04:15 PM
I think Billy is right on the mark. An item of issue police bayonet with a missing police eagle grip insignia replaced postwar with a NSKOV insignia.
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