Original German WWI M1898 GEW 98 Nickel Plated Parade Bayonet with Scabbard and WWII Frog Brunswick Guns to a degree

to a degree

that is matched on the barrel

and a 2 1/2" barrel in just

SS-Kosaken-Kavallerie-Division)

military service

Original German WWI M1898 GEW 98 Nickel Plated Parade Bayonet with Scabbard and WWII Frog Brunswick Guns to a degreeOriginal 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