Original Bulgarian Cold War Era Inert RGO-78 Defensive Hand Grenade Helmets This is the Original issue

This is the Original issue Pattern 1903 Bandolier of leather construction with five individual pockets each designed to carry two clips of five rounds each

Period newspaper clippings announcing the award of the Knight's Cross

which we can't quite make out unfortunately

Blade length: 3 1/2”

This version was made of gold plate over silver

Original Bulgarian Cold War Era Inert RGO-78 Defensive Hand Grenade Helmets This is the Original issueOriginal Item: Only One Available. Here we have another lovely example of a Warsaw Pact era grenade, the Bulgarian RGO 78 Defensive Hand Grenade. The RGO 78 is a defensive hand grenade of Soviet origin. Externally it looks very similar to the RGD 5, on which the design was based. The grenade is in fantastic condition and still retains all appropriate paint and markings, a rarity with these. The grenade is complete with only the explosives and shrapnel