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06-03-2017 11:02 PM
# ADS
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Well, there you go Tsladen. There's your answer. It's real and rare/valuable or it's a fake!
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Contributing Member
It's not in Kiesling's book but I have no idea how complete his book is. It is interesting.
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Advisory Panel
Lots of stuff in Skennerton
not in Kiesling and vice versa.
As for the cleanout hole it was introduced with the P88, deleted on the P1903 and reintroduced later on in the production of the P07.
At the 1906 trials at least someone thought it had value perhaps having experience with P03 bts not fixing.
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Contributing Member
It would be an interesting bayonet to hang on the wall as a true "curio", even if a Khyber Pass creation.
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Advisory Panel
He hasn't been here since the 2nd, I'll be interested to see what's up when he returns...
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If he returns............
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Thank You to Peter Laidler For This Useful Post:
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Contributing Member
Originally Posted by
green
Please check Pg 184-5 of the
British Bayonet book by
Skennerton for pics of the 1905-6 trials bts. Sure looks like what I posted in #7. Two of the patterns of trials bts including the above had the pommel hole.
I stumbled upon this page of Skennerton's book the other night, by accident, while looking up something else and happened to notice what green has been telling us all. Not only do the pictures in Skennerton's book appear to match the example in post 1 but also the dimensions given in the book match exactly the dimensions of the bayonet in post 1. If anyone else has a copy of Skennerton's book please have a look at the top of page 185, as green has suggested already.
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Legacy Member
I have a copy of Skennerton`s book and I agree - it seems to be the first type of the 1906/1907 trials bayonet (with a grip similar to the P. 1903). The second type has a grip similar to the P. 1907 without hooked quillon.
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Advisory Panel
So it's set up for a 1907 nosecap? Who'd have thought? Imagine that...
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