Some recent bayonets

[Aragorn243]

Since it appears the "game" is a bust, thought some of you guys would like to try it, I'll ID the bayonets.

Left row of two are the two post World War I bayonets. The top is an Egyptian Hakim, the bottom is an M27 series Finnish bayonet. Which one it is exactly I am not sure.

Right row top to bottom: Austrian M1895 cavalry with the adjustable sight, German S98/05 Butcher, Swedish 1914 Cavalry Carbine, Dutch 1895 Mannlicher, Turkish 1890, British 1907 (this is the one I've had for over 20 years), German S98 (Bavarian), and French M1886 Lebel.

The most expensive was the Finn at $180 and the least expensive was the British 1907 at $20. I wish I had bought a lot more of the 1907's. But to be fair, I was young, recently married, recently out of college, new baby on the way and $20 was a lot of money back then. I had bought the No SMLE MK III at Woolworths for something like $79 and found the bayonet to go with it a few weeks later at a flea market or show of some type. This was my first surplus rifle and first bayonet and with one exception, the last of both for nearly 20 years.

My personal bayonet collection want list is down to three. A Canadian Ross, a US M4 and a Polish Mauser. Does not mean I have them all by any means but I'm concentrating on WWI and WWII and not all that concerned about variations of type. I do have a few duplicates of type with different variations as I have at least one for every rifle I own. My collection is pretty modest at roughly 100 or so. Most are in well used condition and only two can be considered very rare, the 1950's reworked British cruiciform of which only a dozen or so are known to exist and a Belgian contract Chinese Mauser bayonet, photos of both should be on here somewhere.