This is a very good example of the early US bayonet made for the “Charleville pattern” muskets being produced by U.S. armories and contractors to supply arms needs and encourage domestic arms production starting in the mid-1790s as tensions rose with France and then with Britain in the wake of the Chesapeake-Leopard affair of 1807. The blade has the rounded shoulders and half-length central fuller showing its descent from French patterns and has unbridged mortise set up for a top mounted bayonet stud. The metal has been carefully cleaned to bright, showing just some gray spots and one narrow bit of raised brown surface rust on the underside of one edge an inch or so long. Bayonets from this period show a lot of variations and are an interesting collecting field with substantial new research being done.  [AD] [ph:L]

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