Bayonet Id Help

[FunWithTreasure]

Found this today in a dump. I am trying to date and type it. It is the first one I ever found. Anyone have any info for it.?

 

[trikikiwi]

You found it in a dump
Very similar - not identical
Winchester Model 1866 Musket Bayonet
http://www.antiquearmsinc.com/1866-musket-bayonet.htm

Mike

 

[steif]

Hi,
I think you will find out it is a lock ring bayonet for a M91 Mosin-Nagant Russian service rifle. The longer M91 rifles served in WW1 until the more modern M91-30 came out, they had a different locking mechanism to them. Some were marked, some just numbered, some had nothing on them. And during the early part of WW1 both Westinghouse and Remington made the m91 rifles on contract for the Russians till the revolution, then cancelled the contracts leaving these companies with tens of thousands of rifles they could not sell.... and just like today, the U.S. government ended up buying the mosin rifles from both makers to avert them going into bankruptcy.. That would account for the usa on the shank marking, if I read the diagram right. these were issued to national guard troops as well as cadets, and the Americans that served in Archangel, Russia were issued these as well..

http://www.old-smithy.info/bayonets/mosin nagant/mosin_nagant.htm

 

[traderoftreasures]

which way to the dump

 

[GL]

Can I have it?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I used to find more good stuff at the local dumps than I ever will detecting until they kicked me out. Entire collections would often be tossed away.