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A Group Of Eight Various Bayonets18th/19th Century And Later
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,187.50 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Group Of Eight Various Bayonets
18th/19th Century And Later
18th/19th Century And Later
Comprising a socket bayonet, with blade of hollow triangular section stamped '29' crowned and maker's name 'Dawes' ; a Baker second pattern sword bayonet, with bright blade and brass hilt, the latter with ribbed grip cast with vertical lines; a Brunswick 1836 pattern sword bayonet, the blade stamped with 'VR' crowned over 'Enfield 1846', the brass hilt engraved '7/9' on the pommel; a Martini-Henry 1876 pattern socket bayonet, the blade stamped with 'WD' broad arrow mark, and with blued socket with obsolete mark, in its black leather scabbard with linear engraved brass locket and chape, the former with 'WD' broad arrow mark and frog-hook, and in fine condition; a Lee Metford 1888 pattern bayonet, by Wilkinson, London, in its black leather scabbard with steel locket and chape, the former retaining its leather frog; a French Gras 1874 model bayonet, dated 1877 along the back of the blade, in its blackened steel scabbard, and in fair condition; a Prussian infantry bayonet for an 1871 model Mauser, by Weyersburg, Solingen, with brass grip diagonally ribbed on one side and with beaked pommel, in its black leather scabbard with brass locket and chape, the former with frog-hook; and a German GEW.98 Mauser bayonet, with diagonally grooved wooden grips (8)
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Literature
Logan Thompson, Daggers And Bayonets..., 1999, pp. 74, 89, 95 and 101