N0.7 Mk.1/L Bayonet

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At one point a couple of decades back a gun store here in the city had a shipment of bayonets of all descriptions come in by the case lot. There were the short 1907s, the first we'd seen and #7s with black or brown paxolin handles...1903 bayonets...all without scabbards. Then he had a case or two of just scabbards come in to mate them up. There were steel with brass mouth, and about three length of 1907 scabbards. That's along with the other types of scabbards all mixed up. The dealers will separate them and make you buy them to make more. That's how this sort of thing happens. It's like a Krag bayonet with a picket pin case, they were done by the surplus dealers because they couldn't sell them otherwise. The story they create eventually sticks like sh*t to a blanket... The short scabbards aren't an Aussie invention, they were done by all that used them...