Unusual No4 Pig Sticker Scabbard

[Flying10uk]

Here is my K98 bayonet which I previously mentioned. I purchased this item some years back from a chap who told me that he had purchased it from the son of a British soldier who brought it back at the end of WW2 and that is all I know of it's history. Please feel free to comment on any thoughts which you may have on the reasons for the scabbard being bright plated and which branch of the German armed forces may have used it as such. It came with the leather frog and all that I have done is to clean up the metalwork plus clean/treat the leather.