An FGGY M95 with an odd scabbard

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Hi bayonet-lovers!

This rather interesting looking M95 has just turned up over here. I don't have the full details on its markings except that the reverse ricasso marking is FGGY for the Fegyver es Gepgyar factory in Budapest, and there is what might be a Hungarian shield on the obverse ricasso.

FGGY bayonets were certainly being made up to 1918, but I am not certain if FGGY was still making bayonets after WW1. They were certainly assembling M95 rifles and making pistols in the post-war period, and their bayonets were in use in e.g., in Bulgaria, into the 1950's, but I just don't know when the M95 bayonets stopped being made. All that can be said regarding the date of this one at the moment is that according to a noted M95 collector, the scabbard looks 'imperial' - but scabbards are interchangeable...

But, the real mystery here is the frog...

I have been advised that this might be Turkish, in the sense that examples like this have been found with M95 bayonets with Turkish markings, but I have never seen one quite like it in the admittedly short time that I have been collecting bayonets...

Any help and / or suggestions gratefully appreciated - Sawdoc?

Trajan

PS: Aleck - I will do that large bayonet file etc., of yours, and the S71, as soon as I can slow down and then stop and catch my breath! Meant to do it last week, but...

PPS: No, I have no idea why the big gaps appear between the photographs...

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According to various web-sites I have looked into the 'F.G.GY.' = Fegyver és Gépgyár mark was only used on Hungarian made rifles bayonets between 1891-1918. Of course none of these sites give a reference or source - - so anybody out there know of one?

Trajan