Martini bayonet offering- scabbard? |
Neil Aspinshaw
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Its not British, more like a US Springfield bayonet, Proof marls looks like Liege, but its hard to tell
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Re: Martini bayonet offering- scabbard? |
Kiwi Sapper
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I'll give it a go......... All Heavily whitened Frog. Pierre Turner page 31 #8 Pouch, repaired or modified. Page 83 #2 ? |
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_________________ It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. |
Sawubona
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Ahhh, the Book of Turner, Chapter 83/ Verse 2 . That was my first thought as well, Kiwi, but the shape of the '82 pouch appears to be a bit too "boxy" to be the same as that sold. It seems to me to be a bit more like the first pattern pouch for the '88 Slade Wallace kit-- the one issued for just one year or so to carry Martini-Henry ammo (Turner Page 87 #7). No internal partition though. Curiouser and curiouser...
I'll have to dig out a couple of bayonets, Neil, and see if a Springfield fits in Label scabbard just for yucks. |
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Kiwi Sapper
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Gutted...........The case that is. not me
I did consider that beastie but without a rear view and those long fold over flaps................ As they say, just a stab in the dark. |
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_________________ It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. |
Sawubona
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I'm thinking you're correct about the "gutted", so now I feel sorry that I didn't bid on it. Gutted or not, a vintage "pair" (they may not have been a pair if they're '88's since the left and right pouch were unmatched that year) of ammo pouches for $45 is a reasonable price even without the frog. If you snooze you lose!
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Re: Martini bayonet offering- scabbard? |
oldcontemtible
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the scabbard has a lot in common with this Belgian 1867 scabbard for a albini socket bayonet. Maybe hence the Liege markings, though I couldn't make them out myself. http://www.abl1914.be/HulsbajAlbini1867/HulsbajAlbini186709.JPG Guy |
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