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Hello!!
THis knife belongs to a friend and he has seirous doubts about origin of the knife. The knife is a unusual plug bayonet with a strange blade, someone could tell me something about it ? Maybe a mix between saber and plug bayonet? best regards carlos |
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It looks like a made up piece to me
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Nicely fashioned hilt, the blade most interesting made in form of scaled down 16th century Landsknecht sabre it would seem. Blade seems to have some age to it.
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Excellent observation Jim. Following on from that I have also seen 'plug bayonets' attributed as Spanish with 'bowie-esq' clipped points. So although the shape of this blade is far removed from the classic form, it's not a million miles from some of the strange late Spanish efforts. At first glance the blade looks like a simple piece of flat steel. But on closer inspection it looks like the grinding could be more complex and subtle. Perhaps Carlos could give us a top down look at the spine and tell us about the temper, distal/profile taper etc? Last edited by Atlantia; 4th November 2012 at 04:40 PM. |
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One further observation.
Although the blade shape seems somewhat eccentric and even 'crude' at first glance, if you take a line from the pommel nut through the hilt in a straight line and extend it down the blade it seems to exit right through the tip. Interesting geometry. ![]() |
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I figured it out the wood looks about right hickory? A Confederate Bowie Plug Bayonet ? LOL :-) You would be suprised :-) |
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