Original German WWII Early Pattern Metropolitan Police Shako in Black by Friedrich Becker & Co. K.G. with Faded Issue Stamp MG 34 Barrel Jacket Assembly Launching enables the arming mechanism

Launching enables the arming mechanism in the explosive type

but it could be a bit earlier as well

the ZB-30 in 7

buck and ball worked as well or better in standard or even rifled muskets

and over all the scabbard has a lovely gray patinated look

Original German WWII Early Pattern Metropolitan Police Shako in Black by Friedrich Becker & Co. K.G. with Faded Issue Stamp MG 34 Barrel Jacket Assembly Launching enables the arming mechanismOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice Early WWII produced police pattern Tschako in black, which pre dates the more common green wool body version. It has a very fine quality police eagle with an aluminum Feldzeichen cockade (often missing), which is in great shape. It is marked on the back with a date of 1942 over maker KARL KHNEL PETERSWALD, a known maker of WWII era police cockades. The shako is the black type as by the