My pre Christmas present to me from me.

[5thBatt]

1909 Wilkinson P1907 with '09 dated internal chape scabbard all in excellent condition.

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[CINDERS]

Very nice indeed sir you have a good taste in self presents...........

[RCS]

My 1909 Wilkinson is just a few months after yours. My scabbard is A.C. 4 '11 and the unit markings are DT over R.389Attachment 89736Attachment 89737Attachment 89738Attachment 89739Attachment 89740

[mrclark303]

Very, very nice indeed, No wonder Santa's Reindeer move so fast with old hooky prodding their arses!

I keep meaning to photograph my equally nice Naval marked 1910 dated Sanderson hooky.

[5thBatt]

Very, very nice indeed, No wonder Santa's Reindeer move so fast with old hooky prodding their arses!

I keep meaning to photograph my equally nice Naval marked 1910 dated Sanderson hooky.

My next best Hookey is a 1910 Sanderson.

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[browningautorifle]

Nice, I had one and let it go before digital cameras were around...too bad. All the others too...

[BruceHMX]

Congrats on a beautiful Christmas present to one's self.

[mrclark303]

I wonder how these survived with their Hooked quillions intact?

I always asumed the Naval examples just survived as ships equipment in the Armoury along with their Rifles.

Perhaps the admiralty weren't as rigid following WD orders.

If that's the case, are Naval examples the most commonly encountered?

[browningautorifle]

I wonder how these survived

Apparently most you see are marked to guards units, and we know they aren't like anyone else. They'd hide their stuff...

[5thBatt]

Apparently most you see are marked to guards units, and we know they aren't like anyone else. They'd hide their stuff...

The Sanderson is NZ issue, might even be NZ Mounted Rifles issue, i now have 4 of these 1910 dated HQ bayonets, 3 have correct '10 dated scabbards, the 4th with a later scabbard & the hook removed, these 1907s do not carry a N^Z stamp, only a Inventoy/Rack number on the crossguard, this seems to fit with the early NZ MkIII rifles numbers as stamped on the butt socket, the same system seems to norm with examples of NZ Mk1 SMLEs & P1903s.


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