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 elegant long 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, a beautiful “eagle head” embellished pommel, and an “oak leaves” embellished guard. Some were slotted with a mortise and “locking lug” attachment and could actually fit onto a rifle, while others were only meant to be worn as a side arm knife. These bayonets were highly prized war souvenirs among US Army troops in the ETO. This German WW2 Rural Police Carl Eickhorn Stag Handle Long Dress Bayonet is in Very Good Condition, with a spot of finish abrading at the left side of the blade tip, some scattered scratching, scabbard wear, and spot patina at each side of the blade, some flaking and whitish patina to the plated guard, tang, and pommel, and with some scattered age wear evident. Otherwise, the bayonet is in fine shape, with no other damage. Most interestingly, it features a bright chrome plated 13” spearpoint fullered blade, sports gorgeous genuine stag handle scales with elegant natural stippling secured by two nickel silver pins and with the classic small German Police insignia affixed in inverted fashion at the right side, and is stamped at the ricasso in inverted fashion with the iconic “squirrel” logo of its maker, the famous “ORIGINAL / Eickhorn / SOLINGEN”. It boasts the traditional bright nickel plated “eagle head” embellished pommel, “oak leaves” embellished quillon with downturned end, and slotted tang with a mortise and fully functional “locking lug” attachment at the pommel, carries the number “127” marked in inverted fashion at the left side of the guard, and is complete with the original German WW2 Rural Police Brown Leather Scabbard in Fair Condition, with heavy denting and bending to the middle body, another heavy dent in the lower body, some loosening, scratching, and spot patina to the end tip, moderate finish abrading and some patina to the “ball” portion of that end tip, moderate patina to the throat, moderate drying, stiffening, and rightward bending to the frog, a pair of slits having been cut into the middle front frog, a complete tear to the top end of that pair of slits, though the entire modification hardly remains notable, and with moderate overall age wear evident. Otherwise, the scabbard is in fair shape, with no other damage. Most interestingly, it bears the original, matching bright nickel plated throat and “ball” end tip, carries the original dark brown (almost black) leather belt frog at top, and the set is a fine example of a very rare, original German WW2 Rural Police Carl Eickhorn Stag Handle Long Dress Bayonet.