Original Austro-Hungarian WWI Spring Handle Trench Raiding Club Accessories making easy targets of the

making easy targets of the descending men

Serial number 25074 is  found on the receiver below the maker mark

Examples like this are rare on the market today

Overall length of this knife is 12 inches

Original Austro-Hungarian WWI Spring Handle Trench Raiding Club Accessories making easy targets of theOriginal Item: Only One Available. Trench raiding clubs were homemade melee weapons used by both the Allies and the Central Powers during World War I. Clubs were used during nighttime trench raiding expeditions as a quiet and effective way of killing or wounding enemy soldiers. The clubs were usually made out of wood. It was common practice to fix a metal object at the striking end (e. g. an empty Mills bomb) in order to maximize the injury inflicted.