1907 scabbards were fairly plentiful here in the U.K. but it's starting to look as if they are getting harder to get hold off which is not surprising as there is only a finite supply of originals in existence. The ones that I have shortened have been for Indian short smle bayonets and I have copied the length from an existing short '07 scabbard. My justification for doing it is to provide a scabbard to a scabbard-less bayonet that matches what it would have been issued with while in service. My motivation was to create a "complete unit" for my collection and not for financial gain in any way.
I did wonder if the British ever produced, in the latter part of WW2, any No5 scabbard bodies from captured K98 scabbard bodies by reducing the length and attaching a new fog button etc, etc. The U.K. must have come into the possession of significant quantities of captured K98 bayonets scabbards and comparing the 2 scabbards this does appear entirely feasible. While this is entirely speculation based on my own observations of the 2 scabbards it does offer a possible explanation as to why the internal size and profile of the 2 scabbards appear to be exactly the same.
Thanks for the information about the Orange Annexe. We don't seem to get to hear much information about Australian Arms manufacture.
