German Police K-98 Eagle L Bayonet

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Hello Everyone,

I am a first-time poster on this forum, so please be gentle!

Has anyone on the forum ever seen a K-98 bayonet marked with the German Police Eagle\L?
 
You should look at the Behoerden/Blanko/Police Thread here in forum from PWCo and others, possible would be similar stamp exist, but prior this time we reported mainly B,C and D under Eagle stamps.
 
It appears the Police Eagle L acceptance stamp was applied to numerous weapons of German origin or absorbed from territories incorporated into the Third Reich. However, I personally cannot recall either seeing or mention of a S84/98 T3 exhibiting this Police acceptance and have no examples reported in my (albeit somewhat dated) reference files. There could be several reasons for this but all would be speculative. It also does not rule out the existence of such bayonets either. If one were to investigate further, it would be helpful to know the region of Germany under the auspices of the Eagle L Police organization prior to WW2 and later. Perhaps they had enough S84/98 (among other) bayonets and never contracted for additional ones by 1941. I have writings from Joe Wotka, whom has long been a expert on the German Police system. He stated 1940 was the last year such markings were applied. Subsequently, Police items like the S84/98 T3 would not have been so marked and a commercial (behoerden) pattern... of which there are many as discussed in the article Andy B posted...
 
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It appears the Police Eagle L acceptance stamp was applied to numerous weapons of German origin or absorbed from territories incorporated into the Third Reich. However, I personally cannot recall either seeing or mention of a S84/98 T3 exhibiting this Police acceptance and have no examples reported in my (albeit somewhat dated) reference files. There could be several reasons for this but all would be speculative. It also does not rule out the existence of such bayonets either. If one were to investigate further, it would be helpful to know the region of Germany under the auspices of the Eagle L Police organization prior to WW2 and later. Perhaps they had enough S84/98 (among other) bayonets and never contracted for additional ones by 1941. I have writings from Joe Wotka, whom has long been a expert on the German Police system. He stated 1940 was the last year such markings were applied. Subsequently, Police items like the S84/98 T3 would not have been so marked and a commercial (behoerden) pattern... of which there are many as discussed in the article Andy B posted...
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So, I realize that “I know no-thing” about German police markings, but as a simple data point:
I own a Mauser HSc pistol in 7.65 with a serial that indicates it was manufactured during 1941 and is eagle/L marked on the trigger web. IIRC, proofs are e/N. (I haven’t done photos of it that I can post right now) If there is a correlation to regional location with the ‘L’ marking, I’d love to learn about it. I know what my father told me about it, but suspect that there was more to the story.
 
Gentlemen,

I think that the Eagles\B, C or L marks stands for the German police acceptance and not a location. You see a lot of these acceptance marks on German pistols and occupied countries pistols. You do not see a lot of mid to late war K-98's and\or bayonets with these marks.

I have attached some photos of my K-98 with the Eagle\L acceptance stamp.

Chris
 

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I looked thru a bunch of pix on an sd card & didn’t find the pistol I spoke of. Time to get to work!
ps: it’s your rifle, but this IS a safe place to show your sn & doing so might help those who collect data for trending & thusly, the rest of us. What year/code is it?
 
I agree completely! My HSc is 756342, e/L on left trigger web, e/N on right nose of slide & right trigger web. I don’t have Still’s book, but I think it falls within the 3rd Army series of 4,000 pistols, most of the range were commercial models.
The decocking feature caused Walther to sue Mauser ag in 1942 & WIN ! (mind blown)Mine decocks when the safety is actuated, so I believe it to be ‘41 production, because Mauser was forced to alter that feature by the lawsuit in ‘42, IIRC.
(I took pix, but too hot for resizing them right now)
 
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