1907 Hook Quillon Bayonet find

[Promo]

Hey Nigel, if you don't mind me asking what did you pay for the bayonet?

[Flying10uk]

Peter raised concerns in post 2 about this bayonet. I have spent my whole working life in the metal working industry and know that it is very difficult to weld 2 pieces of metal together without leaving a trace/scar. One would normally expect to see some sign even when the metal has been ground/linished. The last picture in the set of photos in posts 1 appears to show a witness line or scar, as I have already stated, but we need to see better quality pictures to be sure that it has been welded.

[mike1967]

The last picture in the set of photos in posts 1 appears to show a witness line or scar, as I have already stated, but we need to see better quality pictures to be sure that it has been welded.

Its normally on the hooked part where you find the problem. That bayonet looks ok to me.

[Flying10uk]

Are you able to explain the diagonal line on the cross guard close to the blade if it's not a weld scar and assuming it's not simply a shadow caused by the poorly lit photograph, please, Mike? (Last picture. post1)

[browningautorifle]

Last pic post one shows the ring and the scabbard...I don't see any lines that you speak of at the hook. I can't see enough of the hook to tell anything. I too need pics of the hook to be able to be sure...

[Flying10uk]

Jim, there are some further pictures which you can't actually see on the post as such. If you bring a picture up to the enlarged size then scroll through the set using the arrows you should get to it if get my drift, as the saying goes. Its the last picture on the right arrow.

[mike1967]

Its the last picture on the right arrow

That bayonet is in post 9, its a different bayonet by another member.

[browningautorifle]

That one is by RCS as pointed out. It's correct of course, the line is vertical and it's not how they weld them together for faking...they'd be welded at the bottom of the old crosspiece and you can see it...very clearly, no matter how careful they are. Unless you've never seen a real one...but now you have.

[Peter Laidler]

Surely....... If you're going to 'make' a hooked quillion bayonet, you wouldn't bother with all that welding palava which would loosen the brazed-on crosspiece while you were doing it. You'd just make a new hooked crosspiece. Far easier and simpler in a vice, on the bench. No visible seams or joins, same mild steel throughout. Unbraze old, slide off forwards, accurately fit new, fit to a nose-cap, clamp into place and re-braze. 1 hour plus at the most! Easy

PS. Just done it to an old knackered P'14 bayonet to prove the point

[Flying10uk]

It's the first time I've seen the pictures from 2 posts come up on a single post but I couldn't quite work out how the date of manufacture changed part way through the pictures. What is the diagonal line then in post 9? I have of course seen hooked 1907s but have always been very cautious about buying them and don't really consider they are worth the money being asked.