A Sample of Our New Collection Of Bayonets, From The Late Bayonet Collector's Pride and Joy. All In Super Condition. A Few Are Jolly Rare Ones

Each one shall be photographed and detailed from today and henceforth.

We bought the entire small collection from the widow of a 'Best of British Empire and German' Rifles and Bayonets' collector, who acquired them over the past 40 years, and only ever kept the very best he could afford to keep. Act fast they are selling really fast. All are top quality and condition,19th and 20th century scarce British and German collectables are always the most desirable of all.

Including; a most scarce 1907 SMLE bayonet with a very good South African brown hide leather frog plus the soldiers SA WW2 medals and badges to be sold seperately

A group of superb American WW1 1917 bayonets by Remington,some with British frogs, some American.

A German G98 Bayonet, A Lancaster Oval Bore Rifle bayonet 1st pattern,

Victorian Enfield P53-6 Rifle bayonets. 1856/8 with Yataghan blades for the two band rifle. Made by Reeves, and a Chavasse Export type, a recorded British manufacturer and exporter for the Confederacy, plus another from America, made for the Confederacy by Chavasse but with no maker markings.

In 1861 Chavasse & Co, produced the 1853 Enfield socket bayonet and 1856 sword bayonet under contract, they bear no British government markings or stampings to link with British government, indicating that all the bayonets were made for export to America for the American civil war Confederate States.The company was used because of its manufacturing abilities and its connections and successes in sales in the foreign market. Markings on bayonet rear edge and socket.of the socket type, and blade ricasso of the sword bayonet. The mark of "CHAVASSE & Co" or 'Chavasse'. Sometimes in marked. Total manufactured of socket bayonets 11,173, far fewer of the 1856 Sword-bayonet were made.
It also details in the ..the1853/6 Enfield pattern rifles bayonets batches sent to American Confederate States did not have any British government stamps or markings. All the above details are from their company records, and the company was based at the Crocodile Works , Alma Street, Ashton Newton, Birmingham, England from 1860 to 1869

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