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[Jim Nasium]

Nice, Nice display, Jim. Exellent presentation. Would like to see closer views of the blades, I note you have several "blade marked" examples..

j

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[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Jim N,

I see you ride. My last two bikes have been Ultra's. Haven't been without a bike since I started riding in Oct 1964.

I really didn't start out collecting bayonets. I started looking for the Pilot's knives we were issued dated to my three years in Viet Nam. I was given a few MC-1 orange handled switchblade knives from some of the pilots we pulled out of the rivers too. Then I found out there were different makers of those and rounded them all up. The "Cole" Military Knife books are great to have. They are to knives and bayonets what "War Baby" is to Carbines.

There is a M-3 blade marked Camillus on an M-4. Pretty hard to find. A Wooden and two Rubber handled and I pulled out a German made and Viet Nam plastic handled (my era). I didn't find the box with my Aluminum handled M-4. If anyone has a Aluminum handled M-4 I am looking for another one.

One of the M-3's is blade marked but not dated. Looking I see the middle M-3 I chose had been redone, (rounded at the guard) bad choice for the picture. I should have paid better attention when I pulled that one out.

Where or when do you stop? That's what my wife wants to know.

Jim