Germany, Heer. A Dress Bayonet, by E. & F. Hörster consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern)

(Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern)

On returning at first light he reported the far bank clear of infantry in any numbers and that only rear guards of machine guns

Contained in an unofficial box of wood exterior and a while silk interior

base with a recessed medal bed and slotted for the pinback in violet felt

Germany, Heer. A Dress Bayonet, by E. & F. Hörster consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern)(Heer Bajonett). A well preserved Heer dress bayonet, measuring 40 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the tip and lower edge. A wide fuller runs the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. The obverse ricasso bears a makers mark of E. U. F. HRSTER, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms monogram logo.