- @ bph9: The 7.92mm M-24 [vz/24] Mauser rifles and their bayonets were not manufactured in Romania, all had been imported directly from Czechoslovakia during the late 1930s. The Czech vz/24 bayonets [with blades 299mm / 11.75-inch long] used by Romania during WW2 have a very small mark [the letters "CM", sometimes encircled] stamped on the blade tang or pommel. If the bayonet was exported to Romania before 1939, only an export mark [the letter "Z" inside of a circle] is stamped on the left ricasso blade. After 1939 under German occupation, many thousand vz/24 bayonets were also sent to Romania by the Germans, bayonets which had been used by the Czech army and having the "CSZ" mark ["Czech State manufacture" - mark] stamped on the ricasso blade and also military accptance marks for the Czech army. The vz/24 bayonets used by Romania may have serial numbers stamped on the sides or the end of pommel and all these bayonets have the muzzle ring in place [as you probably know, the Germans removed the muzzle ring of the Czech vz/24 captured bayonets which were later issued to the Wehrmacht]. => NOTE: Some vz/24 bayonets used by Romania during WW2 have an unusual ricasso mark showing "two crossed horse heads" and these bayonets are also stamped with the Romanian army acceptance mark [the letters "CM"]. E-mail me if you want to know more details. Lido 01/10/09