I found this at a yard sale in a bucket with yard impliments, no scabbard. It is an imperial with bakelite handle ends and wooden handle. Any info appreciated.
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I found this at a yard sale in a bucket with yard impliments, no scabbard. It is an imperial with bakelite handle ends and wooden handle. Any info appreciated.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...7/x996ac-1.jpg
Original leather washer grip replaced post war with the wooden grip. Page down on the link below. Very nice yard sale find!
U.S. M4 Bayonets and Foreign Copies
Thanks. It was a good day. I saw the bayonet lug poking out of a bucket of yard shears and such. A lesser man would have missed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by W5USMC
I've been looking for one of those for years, and you find it in a bucket of junk at a yard sale! Some guys have all the luck!
That's where you always look first. A quick scan and a dig through the junk.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimb16
Better picture next to a Uticahttps://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...7/n7rlj5-1.jpg
In the picture below is my WWII Leather Handled Imperial, Post War Rubber Handled Imperial, Post War Plastic Handled Imperial. Just missing your wooden handled yard implement to complete my Imperial M4 collection. :lol:
Nice find gun papa.
I found this Imperial M 4 trench knife at a gun show Fri. been looking for awhile. the M3 trench knives have really went up in price the last two or three years.
I wanted it for my small collection of carbine knives.
1st pic.: Imperial M 3 blade marked, with M8 scabbard.
2nd pic.:
M3 trench knife with M8 scabbard.
M 4 bayonet with M8A1 scabbard.
M4 bayonet with M8A1 scabbard, [bayonet is the Korea / Vietnam era]
Anyone ever noticed that on the very tip of these knives their is a dark spot ? I think it caused by the hole at the tip of the scabbard ? or it could be to my poor vision ? ;)
It's not a general thing, looks like that one may have been poking a fire. Discoloration on the whole blade. It also could have been stuck in a barn beam for some years.Quote:
Originally Posted by lboos
Here's some pics of a Utica US M3 (Type 3) that I bought in 2012 for $100 at a gun show. It was a bit rough but an honest example of the "real deal" - I sold it in 2018 for $250 and wish I hadn't ever since! Louis, look under the "ears" of the scabbard on yours - should be some markings under there. Mine showed B1/2N which I believe is a pretty early marking for the M8. You've got a nice set of knives there! I still have (2) WWII M4's - a Camillus and an Imperial. - Bob
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I'd have to dig mine out and count...I know that I've got at least a dozen M3 knives and M4 bayonets. One is an early blade marked Boker in an M6 scabbard, and one of the last is a rubber handled M4 Utica in a late steel tipped M8a1 scabbard. I need to take and post a picture of that collection....
Let's see if I can attach a couple of pictures.
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There are a few others that aren't in these pictures. I also have a nice selection for the M1, 03, 03a3 and M1917; a couple of which managed to sneak into one of these pictures.....
jimb16,
Nice looking collection of carbine accy's, I esp. like your M6 leather scabbard. they are getting harder to find, and when you do they are 2 too 3 times higher then the M3 trench knife by it's self.
Thanks for the pic's.
USGI,
I never knew their was markings under the ears of the scabbard's, I looked at both of mine : on the M8 scabbard it looks like B 1/1 N, best I can tell.
On the M8A1 it looks like B 3/9 N.
Do you know what these numbers mean ?
Thanks for letting me know about these markings.
That information may be in "Bayonet Points" - all I can remember right now is the lower the numbers, the earlier they were made. - Bob
Link below talks about the Beckwith Scabbard numbering.
Bayo Points 6