Can you push the scabbard up to see if serial number matches ?

 

The serial number on the scabbard is “55.” The serial number on the bayonet is “732.”

 

Early bayonet with a late frog.

 

What you have is what collectors refer to as a German S84/98 Type III (otherwise referred to as a Kar98k bayonet, though it will fit most military M98 Mauser rifles with a 4cm length bayonet lug). This pattern was standardized by 1934 and produced until 1945... albeit only three manufactures are verified as having produced any during that year. Such bayonets made for the German military initially bore a special code assigned to each manufacturer. During the transition year of 1937, the "S-codes" were superseded by use of their company names instead. This again changed once more in late 1940 into 1941, when they were assigned "alpha codes" until the war ended. In the case of P Weyersberg, this would have been "crs".

 

The frog is interesting because of late production and position of RBNr stamp. Secure strap was cut off period, the bayonet itself is not in well condition, possible heavy used postwar, maybe even sharpened? or wrongly stored.

 

Not sure why the (presumably) serial number in the guard was covered up with a weld. The Germans didn't put serial numbers there. Rework?

 

It doesnt looks like weld there, more real there was a heavy rust and layer of surface was removed.

 

I haven’t sharpened it, or tried to restore it. I did play with it as a kid, and it definitely wasn’t properly cared for. I didn’t recognize it as a piece of history until after I had grown up.