Please can someone identify my bayonet?

[ministrymason]

Hi I am new to the forum and I was wondering if someone could identify my bayonet? It was my Grandads and it is British. Thanks

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[Patrick Chadwick]

With a Cyrillic "D" stamped prominently after the number, what makes you think it is British?

To me, it looks more like the SVT-40 Tokarev bayonet.

[ministrymason]

With a Cyrillic "D" stamped prominently after the number, what makes you think it is British?

To me, it looks more like the SVT-40 Tokarev bayonet.

I assumed it was British WW1 or WW2 seen as it was my Grandads.

[ministrymason]

With a Cyrillic "D" stamped prominently after the number, what makes you think it is British?

To me, it looks more like the SVT-40 Tokarev bayonet.

On one side it has "5520B" on the other side it has "3072 symbol 60" On the handle it has "B and a horseshoe shape"

Thanks

[ministrymason]

Could it be this bayonet?

Austro Hungarian Steyr Bayonet for 1895 and 95 34 Carbine M95 Mannlicher | eBay

It has the same WG on one side and eagle on the back

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Thanks I think you are correct. What era is it from? Are they common?

[Peter Laidler]

Looks like an FN type scabbard to me!

[Patrick Chadwick]

After searching around a bit, I found photos of the bayonet for the Mannlicher M95 rifle. It seems to be identical, especially the long tag on the scabbard.

The clincher is the ricasso marking (something over WG) which is actually OE over WG, i.e. Oesterreichische Waffengesellschaft, nowadays simply known as Steyr.

[Patrick Chadwick]

That's the one! But I have no explanation for the Cyrillic "D", unless it was a mark applied in a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire that used the Cyrillic alphabet.

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What era is it from?

Post-1895. And there must have been hundreds of thousands? (millions?) of them.

[ministrymason]

Thanks for your help! Its really interesting. I assumed it was British World War 2. It isnt worth a lot then?

[Patrick Chadwick]

It isnt worth a lot then?

Over here, 30-euros-ish. But I am not a bayonet specialist, just a shooter of oddball rifles.