Sten Bayonet - real or repro?

[koldt]

THe man to ask is Graham Priest however I knwo what he will say, it is almost impossible to tell the fake and the real even with both side by side. If you got it from canada the chances are better but.....................

Therein lies the problem. Where does one find a known real bayonet to compare it to? A picture, resource, anything....

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[old-smithy]

Therein lies the problem. Where does one find a known real bayonet to compare it to? A picture, resource, anything....

I know of several real ones but a picture will not help, like I said side by side a fake and a real one are almost indistinquishable! Even Graham has to go by his lables, a bad fake is easy to tell, the angles are wrong etc, the only reference i know is Grahams book the Spirit of the Pike which has excellent pictures and lots of too look out fors. It isnt on line, but a good library shoudl be able to get a loan copy i should think or you can buy a copy

There is a fake one on my web site, if that will help

The biggest problem is that apparentley most were sent to Canada that were not destroyed, like I said Canadian provenence will help, a friend of mine bought one from Canda last year off Ebay went cheap but all the signs are that it is probably real, but ??????????????????

[koldt]

I know of several real ones but a picture will not help, like I said side by side a fake and a real one are almost indistinquishable! Even Graham has to go by his lables, a bad fake is easy to tell, the angles are wrong etc, the only reference i know is Grahams book the Spirit of the Pike which has excellent pictures and lots of too look out fors. It isnt on line, but a good library shoudl be able to get a loan copy i should think or you can buy a copy

There is a fake one on my web site, if that will help

Thanks very much. I found a couple of sites that are listing the book for sale. Just have to ask "Santa" to order it. She already ordered me about $500 worth of gun/bayonet/crap hardcover books so far for this Christmas, one more book aint' going to hurt.

I've seen a few fakes, and yes they were fairly easily distinguishable. But wow, the fake on the page Frank linked, is sure a good fake (if there is such a thing).

I couldn't open up the picture on your web site to the fake Sten.

Either way, I'm not doing the research to simply determine if mine is a real one or not. 50 bucks ain't going to kill me, but I like doing all the other reading that comes along with this quest.