I've owned this Model 1917 bayonet a while which has had it's belt mounting hacked off roughly with a hacksaw, by the look of it. What I am interested in is whether this was likely done by the British Home Guard during WW2 in order to fit British leather and webbing frogs or if it was done later by a civilian owner for some unknown reason, perhaps trying to make a British scabbard out of an American one. Sadly this has somewhat destroyed an early type M1917 scabbard but it is still interesting if done by the Home Guard. I can't decide one way or the other who may have done this and obviously we can't say for sure, but I was wondering if we could arrive at a consensus of opinion, please, on the most likely "converter" of this scabbard. I could make replacement parts to put it back to original spec but I wouldn't do this if it is felt that the home Guard probably removed the U.S. belt hanger/mounting.
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