Hi Guys,

I have been given a bayonet complete with scabbard and frog by a friend who was cleaning out his fathers stuff. The bayonet is a Lithgow 1907 with a short roughly cut blade to 10 inches, The scabbard is Orange marked the frog is Australianicon marked 1939.
His father like mine was diverted from the middle east to New Guinea and was issued an Owen and this bayonet.

The marks on the blade are one side:
MA
1907
1
6 42

other side:
Arrow
Proof Mark MA

On the hilt below the release catch:
C
42778

So I think I will have in my hot little hands one of the few genuine cut down war expedient Owen bayonets. Apparently the blade has been ground down in a not very professional way. Will get some pictures up as soon as I have it in my hot little hands for you to critique.

Dick
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