Original German WWI M1898 GEW 98 Triple Etched Nickel Plated Parade Bayonet with Scabbard Category_Blunderbuss with small areas of staining

with small areas of staining

000 bayonets

The helmet's "soup bowl" shape was designed to protect the wearer's head and shoulders from Shrapnel shell projectiles bursting from above the trenches

Clearly this Blunderbuss was in EIC Service for many years prior to be assigned to the EARL BALCARRAS

intact hose

Original German WWI M1898 GEW 98 Triple Etched Nickel Plated Parade Bayonet with Scabbard Category_Blunderbuss with small areas of stainingOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1898 with the new Mauser bolt action infantry rifle the military adopted this long bayonet, the Seitengewehr (Sidearm) M1898. This longer bayonet gave an Infantryman the ability to bring a Cavalryman down from his horse, due to the bayonets long reach. Of course Cavalry was soon becoming a thing of the past and these long bayonets were being surpassed by different and shorter versions. At the start of WWI in 1914