I picked up a carcano bayonet off ebay that came yesterday. Can't seem to find much information on these at all. Condition is fair, it appears to have been arsenal refinished at some point. The blade has been blued but also shows signs of earlier pitting. It's stamped RB389 on the cross guard and has an R superimposed over a C on the blade. Has three small letters on the flat of the cross guard the first which I can't make out, the second and third are P and S. It has one other mark on the top of the handle metal that I can't make out.

I'm just a casual collector trying to get one representative piece from each nation during the wars but would like to know a little of the history behind them. What little I could find on this seems to indicate that it is of WWI vintage due to the cross guard markings
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