Germany, Feuerschutzpolizei. A Rare Dress Bayonet, Distributed by Linnenbrugger & Ellermann Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Silver Grade - in zinc

Silver Grade -  in zinc alloy

light contact and surface rust

the obverse bearing a central wreathed inscription of “KRIEGS VERDIENST” (“WAR MERIT”)

maker marked "BIRKS" and hand engraved "19 WCI" on the reverse

Arthur Charles Sandford (born 1877) was a veteran of the Boer War

Germany, Feuerschutzpolizei. A Rare Dress Bayonet, Distributed by Linnenbrugger & Ellermann Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Silver Grade - in zinc(Feuerschutzpolizei Bajonett). A rare and well preserved Feuerschutzpolizei dress bayonet, measuring 39. 5 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 fuller runs the majority of the length of each side of the top edge of the blade. The obverse ricasso bears a distributor mark in the form of the logo of