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I agree with George, good question Paul. My feeling was that the company name was altered to suit this new purpose, producing armaments, so that they changed the compamy name to Waffen Loesch to reflect that new purpose.

Just in the course of learning, I've found that many of the things we think of as mysteries had far simpler answers given it was wartime & the well-known German propensity for frugality.

I have one of these bayonets, dual marked Ch.A.W. & Waffen Loesch & spine marked with the "H". I think Tom Wittmann once said he thought the "H" might stand for the airport at Hildescheim. Sadly bayonet my has no serial numbers. I have always loved their simplicity & workmanship along with the beauty of the stag grip plates. There just isn't a lot of period info out there.