Tores Tuesday. I have already written about German sawback bayonets. So, will not repeat all of it, but I just got a new one, a scarce maker too, so I thought I’d present it. About 6% of the 98/05 bayonets were made with a sawback. This was not to make the weapon more brutal and barbaric It was to issue the bayonets to pioneers and to NCOs so that all who needed easy access to a saw had it.Not that that meant that the Allies, especially the British, did not make the most of the chance to make propaganda about the Huns barbaric weapons. So, at the end of 1917 the Germans stopped manufacturing sawback bayonets and had the saw ground off many of them. This is an S98/05nAms, a new (post 1915) type made by Pack Ohliger & Co in 1916. The saw is still intact on this one.
