A minor variation from postwar markings seen before, the Portuguese contract bayonets have been known for some time as good candidates for added markings. With a very good profit to be made from either lesser quality or “beater” bayonets, that could originally be purchased for next to nothing like the example posted just above.
Here is a period rework, with an added armory rework marking. Which from datable specimens, seems to be seen most commonly on bayonets that would probably have needed some work in the period from 1939 to possibly early 1941. But of course with this undated, no Waffenamt example of a commercial WKC, dating is not as easy. But it's also obviously not one of the "mid-war" period bayonets, being much earlier. FP
