My friend found these bayonets among his recently deceased uncle’s possessions. They look like this: Â
Here are closeups of the handles and sheaths:
The smaller one is 16 1/4" long, blade 11 3/4"
The larger one is 20 1/4" long, blade 15 3/4"
One of them has a number on it: ORP7769
They look like WWII but we don’t know what country or anything. Any help identifying these would be greatly appreciated! Â
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German, WWI, Mauser Bayonet
It is possible they saw re-use in WWII, or Re-use in some other nations like Bulgaria during and prior to WWII.
Chile also used a similar rifle at some point.
Most WWII Bayonets were reduced to about 6 inches in size, and many had metal sheaths instead of leather. The Longer the bayonet in general… the older.
hmmm…
Upon further review - I could be wrong. Perhaps a British Bayonet?
Definetly WWI era.
Just remember, when you stick that on your gun, and then you stick that into somebody… that you have to use your foot on their chest to get it out in general, and that anything less than 3 inches of penetration into the chest “may” allow them to survive. ;)
Thanks for the morbid instructions, Garg - lol
Here are the results of the bayonets from milsurps.com- the poster named “porterkids” is correct.
http://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=44302&p=263575&posted=1#post263575
I confirmed with pictires:
Italian model 1891 on Ebay:
Japanese type 99 bayonet on icollector:
