Ejh1896 Posted 17 September , 2014 Share Posted 17 September , 2014 Canadian Ross bayonet uses the same pattern of scabbard. Again the bayonets are relatively easy to find but I ended up paying four times the price I paid for a bayonet for bayonet and scabbard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
303man Posted 17 September , 2014 Share Posted 17 September , 2014 My Scabbard is according to what you say the 1888 type but has the leather chape pinned with the small brass pin. All Marks are 1903 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 18 September , 2014 Share Posted 18 September , 2014 WOW! That's a beauty! In what I think is the original brown colour too (although I am ready to be corrected on that issue). I am basically restricted to collecting what turns up in Turkey, and hardly any of the scabbards there of either type have any visible markings, never mind such lovely clear ones as these! Trajan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 23 April , 2015 Share Posted 23 April , 2015 "CC 1941 is actually Ca, for either Calcutta (original thoughts), but today we think it's Cawnpore - a centre still of military production, who must have done the refurbishment of a U.K. made scabbard." So it is 'period' and refurbished, as I originally thought! In which case, a happy 'sister' to my 1/5 Hants marked example, and one that will make a happy interim 'marriage' with one of my 1903's! Now to find an Indian P.1903... Seems that these scabbards were still around as late as 1947! Rose in P.1888/1903 p. 165, lists a LOC of that year declaring them obsolescent, - not obsolete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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