Mukden Mauser Bayonet

[m4a3sherman]

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These things are so rare. How many of your gentlemen (and perhaps ladies, this is a very popular field) own or have owned a Mukden Mauser bayonet? Idea how these came into the US?

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[Peter Laidler]

Ain't got a clue about the bayonets but could it have been picked up in Korea and brought back to the US? Only later did he - or someone else - realise that it was a rarity.

Had a similar thing occur but vice verca after Gulf 1 when one of the tank recovery crews showed me a VERY unusual, tatty and scabbard less AK type bayonet that he'd picked up earlier in the week. What was it worth he asked. We had a look at the marks carved into the wood grips and the blade and................ It was an old Iraqi Sterling SMG bayonet that's been sold to them in the 60's or so when they were on our side! Well, worth slightly more than an AK bayonet and back in the UK it had found a scabbard too!

Mind you, if he still has it, the No5 will be worth a lot more now!

[porterkids]

I have one of the Mukden Mauser bayonets and I know at least three other collectors who have one.

[marysdad]

I have never owned one, but have bid on a couple of these in the last few years.

[m4a3sherman]

I've only owned 2, the one I posted on here ages ago (long since sold with this companion rifle) and the one I have up on eBay now. I really like these and the rifles but given how hard it is to find the rifles and how far out of my collecting range Mukden rifles and such are, I tend to pass them on. That an they are expensive and I can turn it into more Gewehr 98's