Sten Bayonet - real or repro?

[stencollector]

The sten bayonet is the one bayonet that was so cheaply made, that it is difficult to tell an original from a poor copy. As such, most collectors will only buy them priced as fakes. There were a number on ebay a few years back where the seller claimed he got them from Hercules (or Hero, I can't recall for sure) surplus in TO back in the 60s, so those could be real. But as they say, buy the item, not the story.

IMA did sell fakes with all the stampings on them a decade or so back. Their more recent stuff does not have the stampings.

In the Sten Carbine book, there is a photo of a mk2 with bayonet in the Cdn section, The photo is form the archives if I recall. Interesting evidence that the bayonets made it into Cdn service, or the factory at least.