Jungle Carbine Bayonet with No Markings?

[Douglas Kerley]

I have never seen one like this. What do you guys think? I am more into the losers (German, Japanese and Italian). Doug

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[enfield303t]

I have never seen one like this. What do you guys think? I am more into the losers (German, Japanese and Italian). Doug

Not sure what to think Doug as I am not a bayonet man. However to help you out I think you should sell it to me so your "looser" stickers are not feeling uncomfortable.

Don

[Douglas Kerley]

Not sure what to think Doug as I am not a bayonet man. However to help you out I think you should sell it to me so your "looser" stickers are not feeling uncomfortable.

Don

I have seen the RFI repos and a number of different originals marked all kinds of ways for different manufacturers but just never seen one with no markings. I was thinking some older repo? I just don't know anything about these. But, if you come down to the 1200 table gunshow in Seattle maybe we could work out a deal. You got snow up to the hubs up there yet? We have had some frost a couple of days so far down here. I'm off to the Portland, Ore. shows in the AM. Doug

[gew8805]

I have seen the RFI repos .........................................

Doug

Well, Dougy is back. Tell me Doug, when referring to a bayonet or any other historical item, what is a "repo"?

[Douglas Kerley]

I define a repo as an item made after the period of the original item to look like a period item. Doug

[MeatMarket]

I define a repo as an item made after the period of the original item to look like a period item. Doug

That's what I figured you meant too, but I assumed you were making a typo and meant to say "repro".

[LesterH]

This is a snide up!. No oil hole in the pommel. None of my No5 bayonets have cross grinding on the blade. Some one has ground the stampings off. Cross grinding stopped about 1903 and it was used to keep oil in the bayonet scabbard.

If this was a Stirling bayonet. You would see Stirling stamped on the blade if it was non british forces issue. A subcontracor of Stirlings is Hopkinson. H in a box stamping ( and they still make knives).

Wood does not look right either. It will also feal light weight. Compare to a SLR L1A3 or 4 bayonet.
Get a proper British made No5 bayonet, you will not regret it. However the War time made No5 bayonets are a little roughly finished as standard.

[Vincent]

Could it be a Sterling with the boxed marking worn off?

Any markings under the grips?

[Douglas Kerley]

Could it be a Sterling with the boxed marking worn off?

Any markings under the grips?

Just black paint. Nothing I can see. Grips came off easy. You know, this one looks old. Barrel ring stamped crudely. I'm thinking a repo would be made better. Almost all the paint is worn off. Grips greasy and dinged. I don't think that this was in a collection untill reciently. I don't know a thing about these. Doug

[Peter Laidler]

I think that it's a standard military spec bayonet made for Sterling. Not an ex UK Military No5 bayonet but the sort that went out to military customers/nations that specified bayonets with their orders such as NZ and Malaya etc. This would be in the 60's and 70's, pre 'STERLING in a box' era.