CONFEDERATE FAYETTEVILLET SOCKET BAYONET

CONFEDERATE FAYETTEVILLET SOCKET BAYONET

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Item Code: 172-6109

This is a FINE condition example of the angular socket bayonet produced by the Confederacy at their arsenal in Fayetteville, NC. This bayonet was designed to be used on the final production version (aka “Type IV”) of the Fayetteville Rifle, which had a standard musket-style front sight/bayonet lug, rather than the saber bayonet lug that had been mounted on the earlier pattern Fayetteville rifles. On January 14 of 1864 the Confederate Adjutant & Inspector General’s Office issued General Order #6, which discontinued the manufacture of saber bayonets within the Confederacy. This led Fayetteville to convert to the manufacture of “shank” or socket bayonets, and to discontinue the manufacture of saber bayonets and the mounting lugs for the rifles.

Fayetteville received their socket bayonet making machinery from the English company Greenwood & Batley. This same firm had supplied bayonet-making machinery to the Bay State Tool Company at the beginning of the American Civil War. Bay State Tool had manufactured the first pattern socket bayonets for the Spencer Rifle, as well as the socket bayonets used on the Massachusetts “Drake” alteration M-1841 Mississippi Rifles. The machinery that Greenwood and Batley provided was apparently originally designed to manufacture the Spanish Pattern 1857 socket bayonet. All four of these socket bayonets have a distinctive sharp angle on the bottom of the shank at the blade to shank juncture and have rear flutes that pass through the neck of the bayonet, rather than stopping at the shank. They also have a longer than normal for the period blade, that tapers more dramatically than the US bayonets of the period. The Fayetteville and Drake bayonets has nominally 20” long blades.

This particular bayonet has dimensions of a 3” socket, a 20” blade and 22 3/4” overall length. The bayonet is completely unmarked, as it should be. The overall condition of the bayonet is FINE. The underside of the blade and socket display scattered areas of original bright polish with the remainder of the bayonet being a fine plum brown patina. The bayonet blade is entirely smooth metal, with no pitting present. The original locking ring is present and is complete and functional, along with the typical large, domed tension screw that is found on the Fayetteville bayonet locking ring.  The socket has the same smooth, toning appearance as the blade, and matches perfectly.  [stp][ph:L]

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