Enfield number 5 Mk 1 Bayonet help

[porterkids]

Looks fine to me.

[Peter Laidler]

We have to remember that the Indian Army made at least 60,000 (and possible many more) for themselves for their home-made licenced L2A3 Sterlings in the 60's. So are these 'fakes'? If they are then they are in much the same way as, say, Savage No4 Mk2 bayonets are also 'fakes' I would call those Indian made bayonets real but simply made elsewhere....... like the No5's made at Poole!

It's the No5's made for the repro trade that are the fakes. But how do you tell? If you do a metallurgy scan on the Indian made L1A1 short and long bayonets the steel and method of manufacture is identical* to the standard UK/Canadian/Aust made bayonets and nobody would call them 'fakes' (* or certainly well within the accepted boundaries of similarity).

Like someone said several years ago, you could write another book on the No5 so-called 'fakes'. Interesting subject

[Brian Dick]

It's original as made by Wilkinson Sword Co.