Short KS/98 Bayonet w/Single-Etched Blade. E. & F. Hörster Solingen, sword within "H" double-oval TM. Nickel-plated hilt fittings show minor surface wear/speckling to pommel, spine, and crossguard, with loss of plating primarily to upper edges of pommel and crossguard. Pommel slot is complete with green felt plug. Black bakelite grip plates have a few tiny chips/nicks to obverse right edge, no cracks. Plated blade measuring 19.3cm in length grades Exc+ showing minor wear/runner marks and some minor gray speckling, but no lifting or nicks to cutting edge, and is complete with original brown leather blade buffer pad. A photograph of this etch pattern appears on page 137, upper of German Etched Dress Bayonets by Wayne H. Techet with the notation that the Hörster firm probably contracted with F. W. Höller to produce this bayonet. Obverse blade features an etch pattern similar to the Höller pattern Nr. ES 102 with bookend border pattern, standard remembrance inscription for service with, "Artillerie Regiment 9 Siegen i/W."(Siegen is located approximately 90 NW of Frankfurt) flanked by an open wing Wehrmacht eagle with oak leaves at the point end and a helmet over oak leaves nearest the ricasso. Etched panel retains 100% of the original factory background frosting. Dent-free steel scabbard retains approximately 85% of the original black enamel showing surface wear/crazing primarily to lower obverse of shell and where a once present frog rubbed on obverse edges. Exc+ (24632) $650.