Picked this up at a recent show and knew, even before I slid it out of the '42 Mangrovite scabbard, that it was a pre-WWII blade. For your viewing pleasure, a near pristine 1921 Lithgow with a bit of cosmo still on it.Attachment 47156
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Picked this up at a recent show and knew, even before I slid it out of the '42 Mangrovite scabbard, that it was a pre-WWII blade. For your viewing pleasure, a near pristine 1921 Lithgow with a bit of cosmo still on it.Attachment 47156
With '42 Mangrovite scabbard.
Beautiful bayonet you've got there! Are you lucky enough to have the wood handles be a similar color of the stock of your SMLE?
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Originally Posted by Kiverson
Yes. Queensland Maple, right? It would go nicely with my 1919 or 1920 Lithgows
Yeah nice bayonet mate.
Post pictures of those rifles to.
Heres my 4 '21 Lithgow '07 and its Lithgow '21 Dble stitched scabbard that is serial numbered to the unfired '21 Lithgow Mk III I picked up as a pair (I will take detailed pics of her (the rifle that is) a bit later on as it is well and truly squirelled away and hard to get to)
There was a thing about the Australia on the grips I was told because it went o/seas but heck anyone else have a better inkling why they were stamped Australia. :confused:
Very nice pick up Husk, story has it with the '21 I have the guy was using it to weed the front yard and the Gunsmith got talking to him acquired the matching rifle and the rest is history as they both reside in my safe now but that sure is a pristine example of a 1921 Lithgow 1907:thup:.
Very nice looking blade...
I have an old Sanderson bayonet on an old now dewat Lanchester that has R.A.N on the rear of the pommell. Which must be Royal Aust Navy as I 'liberated' from 40 Base Workshop where it was used to test for the fit/serviceability/tightness of the bayonet bracket on the old RN and RAN Lanchesters. The rivets on these brackets were always loose so we had to tighten or re-rivet them. If you tack-welded the Lanchester bayonet bracket (never tried or did it, but was told.....) to the casing, it took so much heat that the casing would distort and the barrel wouldn't slide in afterwards. Totally irrelevant to this thread but memory banks just slipping into overdrive......
Anyone else out there have an ex RAN marked one?
Now all you need is a double- sided stitched scabbard to make it complete!
I thought the bayonet bracket and mag housing on Lanchester were brass?? I saw them in the hands of Turks and they shone like new coins...Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Nope....., the bayonet bracket on ours/ RN and RAN and RNZN (HMNZS Blackpool as I recall) in the Far East were cast steel bayonet/sling loop brackets. But I could be wrong as I am going from memory. Any otherrs out there.......
I forget where I got the idea Peter. I've thought that for 40 years though. I just remember the Turk weapons needed a bit of...how shall I say...care? I remember an MP38 out in Ormaphita fields that had not a lick of finish on it, shone like a new silver coin in the desert sun. His mag pouches were stark white...