AndyB

Go to http://k98.free.fr and check out other 43 cul bayonets. There are a couple close in manufacture, 346d and 241f. Some of the other...

Same opinion as others on blade is visible still remains of light blue, should be visible when removed grips, but here would be not real...

Nice rifle, the explanation of the difference in units could be the disc is from other rifle and was replaced here. I would compare the...

In case its a czechoslovak ZB production it should be late 30ies or post WW2 as the symbol with Z with horizontal line in middle is...

In early war they ultimately used full metall ASG88/98 bayonets for using on Kar98aZ as not have wooden grips.

Yes it looks like B suffix, which is not well known on this type of KM marking, there was something under N and 5 as mentioned, hard to...

Question is the suffix really P as it looks like remains of B?

I personally would compare the KM marking with similar type side by side, with measuring the size of digits etc, but personally i am...

Other important thing, normally the maker and serial were not whitened as here, but the origin stamps does have the blueing intact under...

You should read the name of firm on Gew98 is Simson and Co in Suhl.

Hoerster looks ok to me , period, problem is with the Navy KM Nordsee inventory stamp on obverse crossguard and not existence of the...

I was wondering if it was a Wz29?

There was mostly a german unit on strap, most real a police unit, the other piece with replacement grip has a czechoslovak native name...

The unit on buttplate could be for 14.Husaren Regiment, 2.Eskadron, weapon nr.77 Husaren-Regiment Landgraf Friedrich II. von...

I dont known how were marked other years but germans got other 178000 rifles next year from Steyr, what i known by Steyr normally didnt...