Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Dress Bayonet, Long Version, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1st Class for Officers -

1st Class for Officers - Bronze gilt with green and white enamels

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered golden-yellow inscription of “FORSCHUNGSSCHIFF PLANET”

below this the year of foundation “1900

the reverse is plain and bears a vertical flat pinback with a round wire catch

(Wehrmacht Schirmmützeneichenlaub mit Kokarde für Generale)

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Dress Bayonet, Long Version, by Carl Eickhorn consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1st Class for Officers -(Ordnungspolizei Bajonett). An extremely well preserved Ordnungspolizei dress bayonet, measuring 47 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 33. 5 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to the tip and lower edge. A wide fuller runs the majority of the length of the top edge of each side, while the obverse ricasso bears of makers mark of CARL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing an