The German Police, like many German organizations of WW2, were paramilitary in nature. Their duties mainly consisted of establishing security and maintaining order, and their purview extended from bustling cities to vast countryside in both Germany and occupied areas. They checked wehrpasses, soldbuchs, and individual civilian documents, verifying the identity of anyone traveling on German waterways, railways, highways, city streets, and country roads, and some German Field Police units were also deployed in combat. German policemen wore a variety of elegant dress bayonets as a mark of rank and status, as well as a last line of personal defense. These featured elegant genuine stag handle scales badged with a small German Police insignia in inverted fashion at the right side. This German WW2 E. Pack & Söhne Police Badged Stag Handle K-98 Mauser Short Dress Bayonet is in Very Good Condition, with some light cleaning, scratching, pitting, and spot patina at each side of the blade, some scattered patina to the guard, tang, pommel, and handle scale screws, the handle scales remaining “shy” of the tang in some areas and “proud” of the tang in others, and with some light overall age wear evident. Most interestingly, it features a 9 1/2” bright fullered spearpoint blade, sports gorgeous genuine stag handle scales with deep, dark, and elegant natural stippling with the classic small German Police insignia affixed in inverted fashion at the right side, and is stamped at the ricasso with the iconic logo of its maker, the famous “E. PACKE & SOHNE / SOLINGEN”. It boasts the traditional bright nickel plated “bird’s head” pommel, guard with downturned end, and slotted tang with a mortise and fully functional “locking lug” attachment, and is complete with the original German WW2 K-98 Short Dress Metal Scabbard in Very Good Condition, with some scattered spots of finish abrading to the body, some indenting to the middle right front frog, moderate drying, crazing, and surface cracking to the frog, about 5 missing stitches from the edge sewing of the upper right front and back frog, and with some scattered age wear evident. Most interestingly, it retains approximately 85% of the original glossy black painted finish on the body, bears the original frog stud at the front throat and “ball” end tip, and carries the original brown leather belt frog still attached. The set is a fine example of a rare, original German WW2 E. Pack & Söhne Police Badged Stag Handle K-98 Mauser Short Dress Bayonet.