Scabbard (frog stud face): circle-Z and "8343" Known today as ICOS-Sibiu, the company's website has commercial cutlery images selected from their 1936–44 catalogs, including KS98 dress bayonets with the double horse head trademark. Following the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the company was privatized again. Created in 1923, Prima Fabrică Română de Cuțite și Oțelării Simon Redtenbacher Seel Wwe și Fii - SAR (in English, First Romanian Factory of Knives and Steelworks Simon Redtenbacher (in spirit), Widow and Sons, LLC) was located in Sibiu.Īfter the Communist takeover in 1948, the company was nationalized. The Romanian manufacturer represented by the “double horse head” trademark was a joint-venture subsidiary of the famous Redtenbacher firm of Austria, one of the world’s leading producers of agricultural cutting blades (scythes, etc.). It is believed that these were made some time after Romania's receipt of VZ-24 exports from Czechoslovakia (i.e., post-1942) as replacements for VZ-24 bayonets lost or destroyed on the Eastern Front. This VZ-24 bayonet was manufactured in Romania. Scabbard (frog stud): two indistinct proofmarks Pommel: "GR" over "17065" (in electro pencil) It is now believed most likely to represent Comisia Militara (the Romanian arms acceptance commission). The CM acceptance mark was once thought to indicates that the rework was done at the Copsa Mica arsenal in Cugir, however, this has been discounted. It was subsequently reworked in Romania, where it was blued and the grips replaced. It was originally made in Czechoslovakia, with the metal in the white. This bayonet bears both the Romanian "CM" marking and the Romanian-format serial number used with their VZ–24 rifles. These bayonets were made in large numbers for export during the 1930s, including a sizeable contract for Romania that began in 1938.
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