Mauser Bayonet ID help?

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Attachment 41564Attachment 41565Attachment 41566I picked up this early mauser bayonet hoping to mate it to my K98a. Can anyone help with the model number or decipher the marking on top of the blade. I do believe it to be a cutdown based on the pictures of the other narrow bladed models I have seen. Any history behind the cutdowns or which scabbard would be correct?

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[old-smithy]

S 98 and you are correct its a cut down, the scabbard shoudl be a shortened steel one, cant make out the spine marks

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Attachment 41572Appears to be a K or an R with a crown on top?

[gew8805]

As Old-Smithy said, it is an S98 bayonet for the Gew98, adopted for service by Germany at the same time as the rifle. The bayonet, by it's condition, shortened and very worn grips, is one of the ones that came out of Turkey in the early 1990s. It should fit your rifle and a correct Turkish scabbard will be just about anything that it will fit. The scabbard's mouthpiece should be too small for a standard knife bayonet to fit, that is the only difference in the Turk scabbards for the cut down S98.

Are there any markings on the crossguard?

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Are there any markings on the crossguard?

Four digit serial number only.
Haven't tried to fit it to the 98A yet but it should fit by the looks of it. It will have to do until I can find a Polish bayo at a cost not requiring a morgage.

[Aragorn243]

That's one I'm watching for in original length. They were deemed too fragile early in the war and replaced by the butcher bayonets. They have a curious looking upward blade on the end.

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That's one I'm watching for in original length. They were deemed too fragile early in the war and replaced by the butcher bayonets. They have a curious looking upward blade on the end.

Lots currently on evil-bay along with the Carcano folders and a few Poles and No 5s. Darnd things just sell for a bit more than I am willing to pay. The search continues.

[Aragorn243]

I noticed two folders selling for mid $150's which isn't bad for them. I also spotted a cruciform sell in the low $200's last night along with the two folders.

[gew8805]

Four digit serial number only.
Haven't tried to fit it to the 98A yet but it should fit by the looks of it. It will have to do until I can find a Polish bayo at a cost not requiring a morgage.

Not a serial number, its an accountability number.

It will fit the Kar98a though they were rarely fitted to them. Those that were had to have a flash guard fitted - very rare on an Sg98 like this. But then you don't intend on shooting with the bayonet fitted so you won't blow the grips off.

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It will fit the Kar98a though they were rarely fitted to them. Those that were had to have a flash guard fitted - very rare on an Sg98 like this. But then you don't intend on shooting with the bayonet fitted so you won't blow the grips off.

By the "flash guard" do you mean the flat metal piece across the top of the grips present on the unmodified long bayos?