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Somebody (I forget who) was selling real M-1 Carbine bayonets with scabbards for $29 about ten years ago. I bought one when I got my CMP Carbine and was surprised that it was real. I was expecting a repo but it was government issue.This is a repro, but what you describe is proper for an M1 Carbine bayonet. The image at bottom right is what yours should look like from the rear.
I bought a Mosin Nagant about 10 years ago and paid 150 bucks IIRC. The last gun show I went to had some for sale that weren't as clean and sound as mine, selling for over 900 bucks.I have one like the top one, and also a German one from WW I. Didn't know they were worth anything, got them at an Army surplus store long time ago for a $1.50 each.
Boom, that’s it! That’s exactly it, but is that proper for pre-1945, or would that be Korean era?
It says K-M4 on one side, and has what looks like an old Chrysler emblem on the other (a star inside a circle)That handle is later, Vietnam war period. There will be a maker mark on the crossguard that will tell you who made it. The scabbard is a WWII period M8
It says K-M4 on one side, and has what looks like an old Chrysler emblem on the other (a star inside a circle)
You really know your bayonets!
Ah, well, that's interesting. I wonder if I thought I was buying an original 25 years ago when I picked it up from a fellow reenactor.Yours is a South Korean copy, made for their military. Been collecting them for longer than you have been alive!
Ah, well, that's interesting. I wonder if I thought I was buying an original 25 years ago when I picked it up from a fellow reenactor.
LOL.....I have a K-M5A1 in my footlocker-o-bayonets. A bunch came in a couple years after the glut of Korean Garands along with the 7" bayonets. The sheaths were marked K-M8A1.Yours is a South Korean copy, made for their military. Been collecting them for longer than you have been alive!
LOL.....I have a K-M5A1 in my footlocker-o-bayonets. A bunch came in a couple years after the glut of Korean Garands along with the 7" bayonets. The sheaths were marked K-M8A1.
Thing was the 7"ers did not come with sheaths, they showed-up about a year later than that. I dug out a few decent M8 sheaths that way.
BTW.....It's been determined that the M1905 is correct and has not been refinished.
Nope, according to the guys over on the US Militaria Forum it's not been refinished.....I'll go with them.It should have the exact same finish as the 10" UFH. That grey finish is associated with the 1960's Vietnam war refinishing that was going on. Those 16" bayonets got issued to MP's and guards. They even had to make new scabbards for them.
Nope, according to the guys over on the US Militaria Forum it's not been refinished.....I'll go with them.
LOL....It must be OK as I've already got a couple of PMs asking if I would sell it.
The sheaths were made in '44 to put a fiberglass training bayonet in but the bayonet did not pan out for some reason. Very few survive.....It as a normal metal/plastic handle wedded to a fiberglass blade just above the fuller.
However the sheaths were already made and they were made the same way (just marked USN MK 1) so the Navy just stuck regular M1905s in them.
If memory serves they were made for Vietnam era trench gun bayonets with the M5/6/7 type handles. I bought a couple of them many years ago but sold them. Sorta wish I had kept one.Based on the color in this picture I disagree with them. If it is darker, and the picture is just washed out, then yeah, it is OK. They are correct on the sheaths. The later sheath I am talking about is the M1917 made by Victory Plastics.
If memory serves they were made for Vietnam era trench gun bayonets with the M5/6/7 type handles. I bought a couple of them many years ago but sold them. Sorta wish I had kept one.
The wartime 16" plastic-handled M1905s go anywhere from $400 and on up depending on decent condition and manufacturer. There were also wood handled M1905s meant for the M1903 Springfield rifle though both will fit the other.
The 1942 dated 16" bladed Uticas are rare with most of their M1905 production of '42 being cut down to the new standard length of 10" in March of '43. If I had to venture a guess I might push $600.00+ out of it.
Thing is that they are so scarce (in 16" trim) I can't even find one for sale right now.
What did the friggin Navy need bayonets for? LOL!
Pic of German one? Some of those can be worth some very good coin, others not so much if they were German-made but destined for some South American shit-hole....There are exceptions though.Well, that surprises me they would be rare; they had them piled in bins when I bought one, and I thought they were over-priced at the time but bought one anyway. I thought the German one would be worth a little more someday because the leather scabbard looked cool but nothing like those prices. I get a lot of offers for the Japanese swords my dad brought back from the Philippines and Japan, but nobody looks twice at the bayonets. I'm leaving them to the grandkids, since I don't need money for anything nowadays.
Pic of German one? Some of those can be worth some very good coin, others not so much if they were German-made but destined for some South American shit-hole....There are exceptions though.
As far as today's worth as opposed to when you bought them they were often sold wholesale by weight or by the crate without any regard as to what was in them.
I had a job at the local general store when I was a kid of cleaning various mil-surp rifles, removing the upper hardware, and cutting the stocks down to make "deer rifles" of them. They were then just stuck down into 55 gal drums. $12 for the cut ones and $10 for uncut.....That's how plentiful they were.
LOL....Old man Stokes would pay us a buck for each one we did. Great money for a kid back then.
Mom fussed because I'd come home with kerosene/cosmoline all over me.