This thread has remembered me of a group of mongrels that have been haunting ebay since its beginnings. I am not at home, maybe on Sunday I will be able to put pictures.
They are sold as Spanish XVIIth century sail daggers for the left hand. They are very simple with a wood grip. And, this is the fun, a three sided blade. I bought a couple in USA in early 2000s for some 30$, but I have seen them going for up to 300$.
In truth they are Moisin-Nagant bayonets with the fixation and the elbow removed. Thousands of them were given by the URSS, to the Spanish Republic during the Civil War in 1937-1939.
In the 1950s somebody shall have thought of making business with them, and transformed them. Somehow most ended in USA, possibly through the military personnel at Rota or Zaragoza bases.
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