Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet by C.G. Haenel with Ersatz All-Steel Scabbard British Machine Guns The steel dagger blade

The steel dagger blade

This is a finely constructed heavy cotton twill cap with interior liner and Blue piping indicating Infantry (including paratroopers)

It still shows the original machining texture

It comes contained in the original wood scabbard nicely bound with plaited plant fiber similar to wicker

Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet by C.G. Haenel with Ersatz All-Steel Scabbard British Machine Guns The steel dagger bladeOriginal 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 bayonet's 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