[John Sabato]

I am not by any means an expert on bayonet markings, but considering my 12 years of experience in Luger photo-forensics on this website, I would have to express my opinion, that the stamps on these bayonets appear to have been placed there after the bayonets had been welded in the area of the original stamps, and then surface ground flat, then stamped, then reparkerized.

I Submit that the parkerization doesn't seem to be even across the upper stamp in either example. That is why I think the area was welded to fill in whatever stamp was originally there. The parkerizing looks like it is very thin on the area which would have been modified because of the difference in the steel used for the bayonet and whatever was use to fill the area.

... I would not feel comfortable that these bayonets were originally stamped as they appear today IMHO. "That's my story and I'm sticking to it..."