EXCELLENT CONDITION ENFIELD NAVAL CUTLASS BAYONET AVAILABLE FOR CS EXPORT

EXCELLENT CONDITION ENFIELD NAVAL CUTLASS BAYONET AVAILABLE FOR CS EXPORT

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Item Code: 1284-34

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This is the Type 2, for use on the Pattern 1858 Naval Rifle. The British military wanted to create a dual-purpose bayonet for the rifle and settled on a combination naval cutlass & bayonet. The British military contracted for about 80,000 of these cutlass bayonets. Aside from a small contract of less than 800 delivered by Reeves of Birmingham, all of the other contractors involved used Solingen-made blades in the fabrication of their bayonets.  Once the Solingen blades arrived in England, the contractors who had the contracts to produce the bayonets would assemble, hilt and deliver them to the Ordnance Department.

The gun metal gray blade measures 27" in length and it is 1.5 inches width. It has no British Ordnance markings. No crown over "VR". There are small factory inspector's marks of a crown over a number over a letter, but these were "in house" not British military. The blade is stamped with the ubiquitous knight head maker mark from Solingen, Germany.  The blade is in excellent polish. The iron muzzle ring and iron basket are intact and in excellent condition. The checkered compressed leather grips are tight and intact with little wear and minor loss. The grip rivets are present and the spring that affixes the bayonet firmly to the rifle's "bar-on-barrel" functions perfectly. The iron pommel is stamped with a small "618".

This bayonet absent of any official British government inspection or ownership stamps was made available for export to the Confederacy; of these "Commercial types" there was under 1000. About 10,000 Enfield “Short Rifles’ of all patterns were purchased by the Confederacy in 1861 and early 1862. Among those 10,000 rifles were some P-1858 Naval Rifles. All known examples of the Confederate purchased cutlass bayonets have blades that are marked with Solingen maker names or logo.  A must if you own a rare Pattern 1858 British Naval Rifle.  [pe] [ph:L]

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