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I wonder if any of you learned gentlemen can help me, I have an old dagger (unfortunately I do not have the facilities to include a pic at this stage) however the blade is inscribed with the letters "fw Backhaus ohligs solingen" the dagger has a wooden handle and has what I believe is called a "sawback" I have been told that this was later banned under the Geneva convention. I believe that this was probably a field knife of some sort and it is rather basic and could probably have been from the first world war, can anybody shed any light on this for me with the limited info that I have supplied.

Thank you in advance
Mark

A Bayonet? Ian.

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Originally posted by Ian Hayes:
A Bayonet? Ian.

I am not sure it has a weird attachment just in front of the handle, but it is not as large as other baonets I've seen.
Mark