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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Enfield View Post
    Your X2E1 bayonet is serial numbered 11877, well above any Canadianicon rifle.

    I could only speculate on the e-penned number - but it definitely isn't Canadian.

    given a reminder or 2 I will dig out a couple Canadian and Brit bayonets - and maybe both of my "type 2" (T-48) bayos
    I had thought the numerals along side the X2 E1 stamp related to the original Canadian Defense order from the Brits.

    This will be good to further investigate as reference material I hold indicates the the Canadian Serial numbers where placed on the pommel with the example I have shown appearing to hold a correct serial number range in the electric stencil format.

    I have few other X2 E1 examples as well and will pull them out to cross check ... One other Canadian (or so I believe), a Britishicon and unconfirmed (partly confirmed without evidence) Australianicon example.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bayo_madness View Post
    I had thought the numerals along side the X2 E1 stamp related to the original Canadian Defense order from the Brits.

    This will be good to further investigate as reference material I hold indicates the the Canadian Serial numbers where placed on the pommel with the example I have shown appearing to hold a correct serial number range in the electric stencil format.

    I have few other X2 E1 examples as well and will pull them out to cross check ... One other Canadian (or so I believe), a Britishicon and unconfirmed (partly confirmed without evidence) Australianicon example.

    Cheers,
    Dane
    Canadaicon did not order anything from the Brits.

    Canada ordered the 2000 Ex1 & Ex2 rifles from FN in June/July 1953 well before the UK and USAicon ordered their Trials Rifles in Dec 1953.

    The Ex1 & X2E1 bayonets were manufactured by FN in Belgiumicon.

    This is why the commercial FAL was termed FAL - Canada until the Germanicon G1 sight and gas block redesign c.1958.
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    Was there any other style of trials bayonet for the SLR? I can't remember the details but I seem to recall a dealer having a "rare" bayonet that they claimed to be a SLR trials bayonet and that it was expensive. I think that it may have been a tubular style bayonet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying10uk View Post
    I think that it may have been a tubular style bayonet.
    Those were the FAL, the metric rifle bayonet. Not so rare...this one?
    Regards, Jim

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    Particularly useless bayonet IIRC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daan Kemp View Post
    Particularly useless
    I never got to use them but looks like they could be...less than stellar.
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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    Those were the FAL, the metric rifle bayonet. Not so rare...this one?
    I take it that there was never a trials tubular style bayonet for the trials SLR rifle then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying10uk View Post
    a trials tubular style bayonet
    Not that I'm aware, we had the little knife type and then it changed with the US type slotted flash eliminator we all adopted. The tube fit another F/H.
    Regards, Jim

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