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**MATCHING NAVAL ANCHOR MARKS**WW1 Era French Troupes Coloniales / Fusiliers-Marins (Marines) Marked Lebel M1886/93/16 Cruciform Epee Bayonet, Scabbard & Leather Frog. Sn 22890 - 22890 The Troupes de Marine are a component of the French Army, not the Navy, despite their name. Their history dates back to 1622 as colonial troops under the French Navy, but they were transferred to the Army in 1900, becoming known as Troupes Coloniales before being renamed Troupes de Marine in 1958. Today, the Troupes de Marine are a versatile force with a primary mission of overseas service, comprising various specialties like infantry, airborne units, and artillery. By the time the Troupes were transferred to the Army the unit names changed from "Marine" to "Colonial" while the Fusiliers-Marins remained part of the French Navy. The Troupes Coloniale were still used in occasional amphibious landings but this was because of the ready availability of units normally based near naval embarkation ports or in colonial garrisons. In the World War I Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles, the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient was more than two-thirds Troupes Coloniale including the 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th Colonial Infantry Regiments and Colonial Artillery. The Troupes Coloniales were however far more likely to see action in African or Asian land campaigns or, during both World Wars in France itself. This is an excellent original example of the French Épée- M1886/93/16 bayonet, complete with its steel scabbard & frog (see page 85 and page 06 item 209 of The Bayonet Book by Watts & White). These bayonets were made for use with the iconic Lebel rifle, these bayonets were widely issued to French forces during World War I and remained in service into World War II. This example marked to the Marine Troupes Coloniales / Fusiliers-Marins is in excellent condition, with a bright lightly blued 20 ¼” long cruciform steel blade free from rust or damage. The blade is straight and tapers to a pin sharp point and has French military inspection marks. The white metal hilt with steel muzzle ring and knurled lever release catch which works correctly are clean. The muzzle ring block is numbered 25530 and has the Naval anchor mark of the Troupes Coloniales / Fusiliers-Marins. The scabbard is original and retains a smooth finish with no dents—rare for pieces of this age. The throat of the scabbard has matching Naval anchor mark, French military inspection marks and has faint number ***56. The scabbard is fitted with original leather frog which has the correct large belt loop with retaining strap and steel buckle. The leather has a faint indistinct impressed manufacturer roundel. All leather and stitching are clean & intact. The price for this excellent rare to find French Marines Lebel bayonet set includes UK delivery. Sn 22890 (all other countries box 2) £475.00 |
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WW1 / WW2 Era German Army Dress Bayonet With Carbine Type Blade, Scabbard & Frog. BAYO 503 - BAYO 503 An original German M98 Dress Bayonet ( see page 179 item 400 of the Bayonet Book by Watts & White where an example the same as ours is illustrated). It has a clean 7 ½” long carbine type fullered blade with thin fullers. There are no maker or date marks on the bayonet. The hilt is fitted with original leather washer. The bayonet's black stippled hard boiled leather scales are in excellent condition secured by 2 steel pins. It has the correct curved finger guard & birds head pommel with working bayonet release button & thin mortise not meant to be attached to a rifle. The bayonet is contained in its original black painted steel scabbard which has no denting. The scabbard is mounted with an original black leather frog with single belt loop. All leather & stitching of the frog are intact. The price includes UK delivery. BAYO 503 (box 2) £245.00 |
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WW1 1915 Imperial German Haenel Model 98/05 'Butcher Bayonet' For Mauser Infantry Service Rifles & Steel Scabbard With 1916 Kern Klager & Cie Neu-Ulm Leather Frog Regiment Marked ‘6.J.R’ (6th Infantry Regiment). BAYO 501 - BAYO 501 An original German WW1 Mauser 98/05 'Butcher Bayonet' set (see image 266 and page 114 of The Bayonet Book by Watts and White). The bayonet has 9 groove wooden grips which are secured with correct two screw bolts. The pommel has a push button spring release which operates as it should & Imperial German inspection marks. The single edged polished steel blade has a maker's stamp on the ricasso "’C.G. Haenel Suhl’. The spine has ‘15’ (1915) date & Imperial inspection mark. The blade measures 14 ½” length and it is 19 ¾” overall length. It's original steel scabbard has a few small dents consistent with service carry, frog locket and ball tip. The scabbard is fitted with original WW1 leather frog. The rear of the frog’s belt loop is Regiment marked ‘6.J.R’ to the 6th Infantry Regiment and maker marked Kern Klager & Cie Neu-Ulm together with 1916 date. All leather & stitching are clean and intact. The price for this nicely marked WW1 bayonet set includes UK delivery. BAYO 501 (box 1) £375.00 |
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Rare, British, Pattern 1903 Dress Bayonet Converted from a Pattern 1888 Mark III Bayonet for the Mk1 III Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) rifle. Sn - 22656 The P1903 design combined the P1888 blade and crosspiece with a new pommel design. Many P1888 Lee Metford bayonets were converted to the 1903 pattern. The P1903 had a short service life as the blade was considered not long enough, having less reach when combined with the shorter rifle. The P1903 was produced for British use from 1903–1907, at which time the P1907 was adopted. This is a good example of a Pattern 1903 bayonet which was converted from a Pattern 1888 long lee Enfield bayonet. The bayonet has traces of its original nickel plating which was used on parade bayonets. The 298mm double-edged blade retains its original bright finish. The blade has a flattened diamond cross-section with a raised medial ridge and terminates in a spear point. The ricasso bears an Enfield inspection stamp 2 ’97 (the original date the blade and bayonet were made for the Long Lee Enfield 1903 (the bayonet pattern). The hilt is stamped 2 CLY (The 2nd County of London Yeomanry) 483 (bayonet number). The ricasso is stamped with the War Department broad arrow, an Enfield inspection stamp and a X. Wilkinson maker’s mark, bend test stamp and inspection stamps. The obverse ricasso bears the crown stamp of King Edward VII, the pattern date, 1903 and the manufacture date of November 1902. This is a conversion from a P1888 bayonet to a P1903 carried out in England by the Enfield. The press-stud locking mechanism works perfectly and the wooden grip are in good period condition. The black leather scabbard is in good condition as is the steel chape and locket. The steel furniture retains a nice patina finish. This is an excellent example of this increasingly hard to find British P1903 bayonet. See Skennerton pages 181-184. The price includes UK delivery. (British Box 1) Sn 22656 £345.00 |
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British WD 1904 Dated WD Enfield 1903 Pattern Sword Bayonet Regiment Marked ’90 RE 10’ To The 90th Battalion Royal Engineers Weapon 10 & Land Pattern Scabbard With Slade Wallace Buff Leather Frog. BAYO 500 - BAYO 500 In 1902 Experimental Long and Short bayonets were trialled to succeed the 1888 pattern Bayonets. After the trial period it was decided that, when fixed to rifles, the Short version affected accuracy of fire less than the Longer heavy version. The short bladed version was approved and introduced as the '1903 Pattern' sword bayonet (see page 233 & page 391 item No.814 of the bayonet book by Watts & White). This is an excellent British Enfield 1903 Pattern Bayonet With scabbard & frog. The steel blade with medial ridge is 12” length. The double edged blade is excellent, clean with no damage and it measures just over 16 ¾” overall length. One side of the blade has Kings Crown ER (Edward Rex) ‘1903’ (pattern) and date ’06 ’04 (June 1904). The reverse has ‘EFD’ maker’s mark (Enfield) below WD arrow and inspection mark. The spine of the blade also has inspection mark. The wooden grips are in excellent undamaged condition and are secured with correct screw bolts. The pommel and cross guard with muzzle ring are blued. The pommel’s steel press button release works correctly. One side of the pommel has regiment marks ‘90 RE 10’ (90th Battalion Royal Engineers Weapon Number 10). The reverse has other struck out Regiment marks. The scabbard is the brown leather land pattern version with internal chape that has just the round tip of the chape correctly exposed and steel throat mount with frog locket. The scabbard is fitted with original period Slade Wallace buff leather frog which has a belt loop and retaining strap with brass buckle. All leather & stitching are clean & intact. The price includes UK delivery. BAYO 500 (Box 3) £475.00 |
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**EXTREMELY RARE ONE OF ONLY 3,412**Original WW2 Australian WD Paratrooper’s Mark 1 Machete Bayonet For No.1 Rifles With ‘Slaz 43’ (Slazenger 1943 Grips) & 1944 Dated Scabbard By RML Ltd. Sn 22960 - 22960 On 3rd April 1944 a special bayonet was approved for Parachutists being intended as a dual purpose bayonet and machete, for use with the No. 1 Rifle. Initially it was introduced as the 'P' (Parachutists) bayonet but when use became more widespread it's nomenclature was changed to Machete Bayonet MK 1. Only 3,412 of these bayonets were made and serial numbers between 3001 and 6412 have been seen (see pages 284-286 of British & Commonwealth Bayonets By Skennerton. Plate A24 on page 285 of the author’s book illustrates one of these bayonets). The bayonet was popular with Elite Jungle fighting Troops / Parachutists until introduction of the MKII variant with composite grip in 1945. This is an excellent, original, example of the extremely rare Australian made MK 1 Machete Bayonet. It has a distinctive 11 ¼” richly blued heavy Machete style blade (16" overall). The blade has a small 'War Dept arrow' on one side and no other markings. The cross guard muzzle ring and wood slab grips are undamaged. One wood grip is stamped by the Manufacturer 'SLAZ 43' which is the Australian manufacturer Slazenger and 1943 date. The right side of the pommel is crisply stamped with serial number '4089' which is in the serial number range for MK 1 production. The bayonet is complete with its original webbing and canvas scabbard with copper rivets and steel mouthpiece. The scabbard has integral webbing belt loops and webbing retaining strap with single brass stud fastener. The rear of the scabbard is ink stamped with maker mark ‘RML Ltd’ and '1944' date. The price for this excellent extremely rare Bayonet and Scabbard includes UK delivery. Sn 22960 (other countries box 3) £1,275.00 |
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**UN-ISSUED CONDITION**WW2 1943 Nazi German Army fnj (Alexander Coppel GmbH Alcoso, Solingen) Model 1884 / 98 3rd Model K98 Mauser Rifle Bayonet With Wood Grips , Mundlos 1939 Scabbard & 1942 Leather Frog By Erseltus Leipzig. Sn 22884 - 22884 This is an excellent original un-issued condition Nazi German marked Model 1884 / 98 3rd Model K98 Mauser Rifle Bayonet With Wood Grips (see page 132 Item 295 of The Bayonet Book by Watts & White). It has the correct Blued blade (2nd Model blades were not blued) in excellent condition with all original blue finish. The fullered blade is 10” length (15 ¼” overall). One side of the blade has the Nazi german wartime manufacturer code ‘fnj’ which is Alexander Coppel GmbH Alcoso, Solingen & ‘43’ date (1943). The reverse has number ‘4849b’. The blued steel pommel is Waffenamt and its release button works correctly. The bayonet has its original undamaged slab wood grips with oil hole and secured by the correct screws. It’s undamaged blued steel scabbard is numbered on one side at the throat '2705'. The reverse has maker name ‘Mundlos’ & early WW2 ‘39’ date (1939). The ball end of the scabbard is also Waffenamt. The scabbard is fitted with its excellent original riveted & stitched, black leather frog with belt loop. All stitching & leather of the frog are clean and intact. The rear of the belt loop is impressed by the maker L. Erseltus Leipzig and dated 1942. The price for this nicely marked WW2 K98 bayonet set includes UK delivery. Sn 22884 (German box 3) £275.00 |
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Swiss Army Engineer’s / Pioneer’s Model 1914 Sawback Sword Bayonet For Model 1889 Schmidt Rubin Infantry Rifles By WaffenFabrik Neuhausen & Swiss Army Marked Scabbard With Swiss Army Marked Leather Frog. Sn 22889 - 22889 An original Swiss Model 1914 sawback bayonet and scabbard (see page 272 Item 607 of The Bayonet Book by Watts and White). Introduced in 1914, these Saw back bayonets were issued to specialist troops such as Pioneers or Engineers. The bayonet’s smooth wood grips are excellent and undamaged &secured by 2 rivets. The polished steel pommel has a sprung push button bayonet release which works correctly. It has a straight cross guard with muzzle ring. The cross guard has a small Swiss cross army acceptance mark. The ricasso of the blade is manufacturer marked WaffenFabrik Neuhausen. The saw back polished steel blade is superb with sharp deep cut sawback section on the spine. The clean blade measures 18 ¾” in length and is fullered. The bayonet measures 24” overall. The correct original scabbard is metal with fixed belt bar and has a ball end marked with a Swiss Cross Army acceptance mark. The scabbard is in excellent condition with no dents and original black finish. The scabbard is fitted with an original period leather frog which has a large belt loop and retaining strap with steel buckle. The rear of the frog is impressed with crisp Swiss Cross Army acceptance mark, indistinct impressed cartouche and faint number which looks like ‘38’. All leather and stitching of the frog are intact. The price for this impressive Swiss Army bayonet set includes UK delivery. Sn 22889 (other countries box 3) £375.00 |
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1873 Imperial German Seitengewehr Model 1871 P.D. Luneschloss Solingen Brass Hilt Bayonet For The M1871 Mauser Rifle With Regiment Mark ’73.R.E.4.111’, Scabbard With Regiment Mark ’84.R.8.186’ & Original Leather Frog. Sn 22885 - 22885 An Imperial German Seitengewehr (side arm for the rifle) M1871 bayonet for the 1871 Mauser Rifle by P.D. Luneschloss Solingen with scabbard and frog (see page 116 item 245 and page 113 of The Bayonet Book by John Watts and Peter White). The bayonet has brass grips, smooth on one side and grooved on the reverse. The smooth side is stamped with imperial inspection mark. The hilt has a push button release for the bayonet which operates smoothly. The cross guard has Regiment mark ’73.R.E.4.111’. The blade is manufacturer marked ‘P.D. Luneschloss Solingen’. The clean single edged steel blade with fullers measures 18 ½” length ( 23 ½” overall). The spine has Imperial inspection mark above ‘73’ date (1873). The scabbard is leather and has a brass throat mount with frog bar and brass chape with ball end. The throat mount and frog bar have Imperial inspection marks. The frog bar has Regiment mark ’84.R.8.186’. The scabbard is fitted with original period leather frog with belt loop and retaining strap with brass buckle. All of the frog’s original copper rivets are present. The rear of the belt loop has impressed indistinct numbers. The frog has areas of service wear but all stitching is intact. The price for this excellent all original M1871 bayonet set includes UK delivery. Sn 22885 (German box 2) £495.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 24/10) **VERY RARE**Boer War Era 1889 & 1893 Dated British WD 3 Rivet, Mark 1, 1st Type Pattern 1888 Lee Metford Rifle Sword Bayonet Enfield WD Scabbard & General Service MK 1 Buff Leather Frog. Sn 22907 - 22907 This is a very rare 3 rivet, 1st type, 1st Pattern, P1888 Lee Metford Bayonet & Scabbard with frog as used by British troops during the Boer Wars ( see page 387 plate No. 801 of The Bayonet Book by Watts & White). It has its original wooden grips with the very rare 3 brass rivets and oil hole in the wood grips. Its clean 12" double edged blade with medial ridge has WD inspection marks at the ricasso and back of the blade including Crown VR (Victoria Regina) 8/89 date (August 1889) and /93 (1893). The pommel has weapon number ‘183’. It has its original black leather scabbard with steel locket and chape. The throat of the scabbard is numbered 1180 and has 'F' inspection mark. The leather is impressed with Enfield ‘EFD’ inspection mark, WD arrow and inspection marks. The scabbard is fitted with original MK1 General Service buff leather stitched and riveted frog with large belt loop and retaining strap with brass buckle (see Carter’s book on Frogs page 72). All leather & stitching of the scabbard and frog are clean & intact. The price for this rare 1st type Metford bayonet, scabbard & frog set includes UK delivery. Sn 22907 (British Box 1) £0.00 |
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