I'm confused - 1905 & 1906 Bayonets..??

[A square 10]

Hi guys, 1st time guest here.
I have a bayonet, it says S A i guess its a bomb symbol then 1906 on one side. the other side says : US 140072.
It has a 16" blade. It's 20 3/4" from blade tip to bottom of handle. Looks to be a wal-nut handle. The scabbard i guess thats what everyone is calling it, the case or the thing you put the bayonet away in. It's like a rawhide/leather? covering wood.copper looking top with 2 rivits in it. I'll have to get some pictures of it on here. I was wanting to know some information on it. Maybe some history on it, was it used in a war? How much it might be worth? My Grandmother found it in a barn in Ohio. Any info would be appreciated. Jason Burris

your bayonet is similar to one of the first discussed here , most likely yes it served , it would have been around in the first world war and the second as well as korea , not sure when these were surplused ,

it was made in 1906 at springfield and no they were not issued by serial number as far as we know , so unfortunately that part of its history is a mystery ,

your scabord could be one of the early M1905 versions that had a brown leater outer cover with eather a krag style metal belt hanger or refitted with a wire hanger or a later M1910 version canvas cover with a leather tip and wire hanger [this is probably what you have]these slipped over what you seem to be describeing to have ,
this is what they would look like -

[J D Shelby]

Mike,

You mention Pal in your first post and UFH in the last one. Do you have two of these?

Cole's book shows serial numbers in the sketches. But it doesn't say if they are highest for that year or just the example he had seen, they are sequential, guessing highest.

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.

I have a S.A. 1910 sn 455291 so that takes it over for the year listed above