Germany, Heer. A Heer Dress Bayonet, By Carl Eickhorn (Heer Bajonett) GTRexclude with maroon and beige embroidery

with maroon and beige embroidery

exterior exhibiting wear and soiling

with a central maker’s mark of “Vinc

and photographs belonging to Karl-Heinz Schultenjohann

Germany, Heer. A Heer Dress Bayonet, By Carl Eickhorn (Heer Bajonett) GTRexclude with maroon and beige embroideryAn extremely well preserved Heer dress bayonet, measuring 395 mm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 250 mm long magnetic metal blade with a sharpened tip and unsharpened edges, as well as a fuller on each side. The blade presents plain with the exception of a makers mark near the reverse ricasso of ORIGINAL EICKHORN, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms logo of a squirrel clutching a sword. The blade sits securely within a