Saw this piece and wanted to share it with the membership. Pretty sure I know what it is, but wanted to post it here first. Scabbard is unattributed except for a stick-eagle|WaA253 on the finial ball. Finish is exceptionally nice...
Saw this piece and wanted to share it with the membership. Pretty sure I know what it is, but wanted to post it here first. Scabbard is unattributed except for a stick-eagle|WaA253 on the finial ball. Finish is exceptionally nice...
If it is a M937 Portuguese bayonet I would expect it to have a prefix letter with the number.
This is very interesting. I had never seen a no letter block 1937 Portuguese contract. Had been under the assumption that all were letter blocked and to the matching rifles. Reference books have also indicated this to be that case. Regardless, thanks for sharing .....
It must be not a Portugal contract, for this speaks the no letter range, the S on lower ricasso , in that period were realized some other exports in 1937, so is possible the rifles and bayonets were send to other country. The mentioned Portuguese Mo937 is in majority marked with letter, but exist pieces that has gone through postwar Portugal refurbishment, were is only serialed to number not to letter or the letter is different. I would compare it with normal Mo937 fonts etc, anyway the serialing was done by Mauser,when delivering rifles.b.r.Andy
...When You look to 6615 piece, is real the pommel was refurbished and in front of the digit near wood line is remain of letter that was weakly stamped, for this speaks the blueing in rust areas? So possible there was faint C or D ,E letter. The early Mo937 rifles, were brought direct from army deliveries coded S/42 1937, in middle of year, so there are letter suffixes on rifles and bayonets. It didn't start from 0 w/out suffix.b.r.Andy
I believe the Portugal M04/39 and MP34 bayonets are serialed in same way but on right pommel.b.r.Andy[/QUOTE
Thanks Andy. Was talking to a friend about this while he was on the internet and looked at examples of the other Portuguese bayonets. He did not specify which side of the pommel they were marked on, so figured it was on the left side. BTW, #37 sold on Ebay for $106.00 (either yesterday or Sunday).