horrocks Posted 8 August , 2015 Share Posted 8 August , 2015 I have no idea whether this is of interest or value to anybody... https://www.sworder.co.uk/A648-lot-620-A-WWI-German-bayonet?arr=0&auction_id=648&box_filter=0&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&high_estimate=0&image_filter=0&keyword=&list_type=&lots_per_page=&low_estimate=0&page_no=16&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=&view=lot_detail&year= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 8 August , 2015 Share Posted 8 August , 2015 Thanks for the notification - it is German made but used by the French, and I think it is an 1866 model. Others who know more on these will correct me! I liked the sword though - I have two like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepoy Posted 8 August , 2015 Share Posted 8 August , 2015 Thanks for the notification - it is German made but used by the French, and I think it is an 1866 model. Others who know more on these will correct me! I liked the sword though - I have two like that. Is it not a Remington Rolling block Rifle sword bayonet as used by the Anglo-Egyptian forces? (Based on the 1866 Pattern French Chassepot Bayonet) Sepoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shippingsteel Posted 8 August , 2015 Share Posted 8 August , 2015 It is ostensibly a French Mle 1866 Sabre-Baionette for the Chassepot rifle .. BUT .. these were also made under contract in Germany (eg. Kirschbaum) for export to various countries. Whilst some were made for the Egyptian Rolling Block rifle (as Sepoy mentions) they were not limited to that contract, but exported to a number of countries, and to suit various rifles. Cheers, S>S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horrocks Posted 11 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 11 August , 2015 How funny - I have a Chassepot rifle. I seem to remember that when I was a boy we had a bayonet for it - I think I remember it as one with a 'twisting-lug' action. The rifle, as a matter of interest, was found with several others, of different origins and ages, in the extensive roofspace of a local business in the 1950s. The youngest model was an SMLE, the oldest a breech loading percussion rifle. The cache was assumed to have been left there for use by the home guard or local militia should the Germans have invaded in 1940. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 11 August , 2015 Share Posted 11 August , 2015 as a matter of interest if you scroll through items there are also 2 death plaques at auction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 12 August , 2015 Share Posted 12 August , 2015 How funny - I have a Chassepot rifle. I seem to remember that when I was a boy we had a bayonet for it - I think I remember it as one with a 'twisting-lug' action. ... FYI, if that was a socket bayonet, which it sounds like, then the bayonet was probably the Gendarme model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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