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Some more interesting relics from a recent trip to the Ardennes. Above left is a very well preserved bayonet for the K98, the standard rifle of the German infantry soldier through out WW2. Even the leather frog has survived intact.
On the right is a German mess tin, compacted by blast pressure, a fragmentation sleeve for an M24 stickgrenade, a magazine for an Sturmgewehr 44 and a very rusty cleaning kit.
Below: Of interest on the K98 bayonet is the fact that the serial number is still visible. When bayonets are found within their scabbards these nearly always survive. It is proof that the production of these items was to a good standard. No danger of damp penetrating the scabbard and rusting the blade. As a personal item the serial number of this bayonet would have been listed in the Soldbuch of the owner.
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