#socket bayonet

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British Chest of Arms, c.1830

Made by Woolley, Sargant and Fairfax. Pine Chest containing twelve flintlock musketoons, pistols, bayonets and cutlasses

Photo from the Butterfield & Butterfield auction catalog for the Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson bequest to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in October of 1996, and now in the collection of the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

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Various 19th Century Bayonets

This was what my bayonet collection looked like about 12 years ago. From top to bottom:

British Brown Bess Socket Bayonet

British Pattern 1876 Martini-Henry Socket Bayonet

Italian Bersaglieri Sword Bayonet Dated 1851 

French Mle. 1874 Gras Sword Bayonet

French Mle. 1874 Gras Sword Bayonet

Brazilian Light Minie Rifle Sword Bayonet, made in Germany and probably diverted to the United States during the Civil War.

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East India Company Socket Bayonet circa 1845. It is mounted with an impressive sword blade that measures 22 1/4 inches in length. The blade is stained with heavy pitting scars near the tip on both sides, nevertheless remains in good condition and is marked DEAKIN on the spine. There are wonderful markings remaining on the socket which measures 4 1/2 inches in length with an inside bore diameter on 15/16 inch. Overall measuring 27 3/8 inches in length.

Images and text from AntiqueArmsResearch.com (Item 69714).