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02-22-2010 10:05 PM
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It's a 1905 bayonet made in 1911. It was re arsenal worked for the WW2 rush and probably never got issued for that one either. That explains the finish, grip scales and plastic scabbard. It looks to be blued or parkerized. They were originally bright. The grips were originally wood. The scabbard was canvas wrapped with wood and leather inside. As for it's worth there are many sites that retail this very thing so you could compare rather than take my word for it.
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Cole's book shows serial numbers in his sketches. But it doesn't say if they are starting points for that year or just the example he had seen, they are sequential.
Yours is stamped 1911 and between the 1911 and 1912 numbers he shows.
S.A.
1906-108913
1907-202698
1908-348064
1909-413979
1910-433686
1911-489214
1912-522358
1913-553574
1914-596722
1915-610658
1916-646865
1917-679323
1918-1009248
1919-1045130
1920-1133202
1921-1185016
1922-1195433
R.I.A.
1906-no number
1907-102099
1908-136401
1909-165703
1910-177503
1911-193454
1913-238285
1917-284204
1918-304674
1919-404830
Some years missing for R.I.A. it doesn't say if they were not produced those year.
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works for me - nice find ,