Lee-Enfield 1907 bayonet

[Peter Laidler]

Nope, not chopped/butchered No5 grips BAR. Re your thread 14, yopu say that you don't think those abominations of grips were fitted in Italy (nor do I), yet in thread 9 you said that they're original as it came from Italy. Can I put my bleedin' obvious hat on and ask whether the same butcher hacking the screws to length also chopped the angular face at the fromt of the grips when he was doing something else. With the greatest of respect to all those who disagree and who undoubtedly know a great deal more about bayonets that I do (in fact I admit to knowing bugger all) those particular grips were made and fitted by a bubba - or as we call them, a butcher!

Those grips (thread 15) ain't anything like yours. They fit for a start............

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[Giove]

No, I am not saying the bayonet is original because it comes from Italy, but because it comes from Italian Navy, which received it, along with a considerable amount of Lee-Enfield rifles and other material, from Canada as military aid in the '60s.

[Flying10uk]

With the greatest of respect to all those who disagree and who undoubtedly know a great deal more about bayonets that I do (in fact I admit to knowing bugger all)

No-one has suggested that you don't know anything about about bayonets, Peter. All that has been said is that there are some plastic grips about fitted to 1907 bayonets but no-one has yet been able to prove the provenance of these. It is unfortunate that we can't get an online picture of the example held by the Imperial War Museum. I could take the plastic grips off my 1960's M1917 bayonet and fit them to a 1907 to give everyone another example to look at but I'll just take a picture of the 1960's M1917 next to a 1907 bayonet which should suffice.