What's this Enfield bayonet please?

[browningautorifle]

Yup, they melted the braze or solder...and slid the crosspiece off. Ground the pommel square...

[Peter Laidler]

Continuing on from what BAR said above ....... and rendered it worthless!

Or maybe it was one of those cut down ones used by the tunnellers who used those ........... Oh don't get me going again! Its been a nice sunny day here in Oxfordshire so far. Have an equally nice sunny rest-of-the-day wherever you are. Took the '69 Mini Cooper out too. LOADS of assorted MG's around here today coming back to their ancestral home

[Buntline]

I've just been looking again a web page with the markings explained - well some. Of interest are the date codes, they give a manufacture date for this of Jan 1903. When was the P 1903 pattern accepted ? If this is preproduction it explains why that drain hole in the pommel is farther forward than it should be & possibly why it was chopped, not issued & sitting about in an Enfield workshop having served its purpose. Makes sense? And an even bigger loss of value! I've been looking P1888's, drain hole's roughly the right spot so back to nothing special, a v.late P1888 chopped up, later type grip screws. So first responders were right after all, I'm not looking anymore - that'll do me. Thank you all yet again.

[browningautorifle]

used by the tunnellers

[browningautorifle]

P1888 chopped up

Don't know where he got that idea...here's a 1903... Attachment 53996

The 1888s are different... So now he doesn't know...

1888... Attachment 53997

These are both pilfered from Carl...

[gsimmons]

1903's used P1888 blades.

[browningautorifle]

Yes the blade...but the oil hole is different and the whole pommel is different because of the mortise slot. Even the 1888 that has an oil hole is in a vastly different place...unless you can show me one like the 1903 hole...?

[CINDERS]

1888 on the top and the 1903 0n the bottom for you to peruse and question the thing is the 1903 never had a Quillon to grind off like the 1907 pattern did.

[gsimmons]

According to Skennerton's bayonet book P1903's were converted P1888 bayonets or made up using P1888 blades. I realize the pommel and crosspiece are different.
Quite a number of these bayonets (1888 and 1903) were converted to fighting knives, some were done very professionally.

[browningautorifle]

for you to peruse

I had a 1903 blade and scabbard for quite a number of years. It was a prize in my collection, along with a hook quillon 1907...

some were done very professionally

Yes they were...