Original Item: Utilitarian black steel Bayonet Scabbard produced at the end of WW1 as a replacement Scabbard for the German 12″ bladed Ersatz Bayonet. Simplified manufacturing techniques were used to minimize cost; therefore, these were designed to fit virtually ALL varieties of the 12″ Ersatz bladed. Officially unrecognized for years, these scabbards had been around in the 1950s and 1960s but their original use was only discovered when many thousands of Original 12″ Ersatz Bayonets came to the surplus market in the 80?s and 90?s. Today these have become a very scarce WW1 Bayonet Scabbard variation. Very few only.
Scabbard only, bayonet not included or available at this time.