Vietnam era M1917 bayonet and scabbard questions?

[browningautorifle]

Now you are back to the original problem.

No. I don't think her scabbards are WW2, unless they're the leather ones. The new type fiberglass scabbard resembles the WW2 Mk1. They can be mistaken, there's two rivets in the face of the 1917 scabbards. There's some unclear information about there being some of the fiberglass scabbards being produced for WW2...don't know...

Here's some info from a collector's forum... "There was a plastic scabbard developed in late 1944 for the M1917 bayonet. What they did was take the body of the M3 bayonet scabbard and added a longer metal throat which allowed it to accommodate the 1917. It wasn't available until early 1945 and few, if any, got issued. For many years they were very rare in the collector market. But then a few years ago some were auctioned off by the govt along with M1917 bayonets. So you see a few around these days but they're still scarce. "

Unless this is what Melanie has...the BODY was used and a different THROAT was devised.

I took the decision to order the U.S.N. M1 scabbard which I had the opportunity to buy because, although I'm not expecting the M1917 bayonet to fit, it will be a useful spare scabbard to have.

Yes it will be.