The usual suspects were sleeping when this auction ended! Grabbed it for a small fraction of what they normally bring! And!! It's an ultra-scarce parade model!!
Or not. Actually, bubba made a project of it & it turned out pretty well. Fortunately, somebody who looks a lot like me has a NOS blade! Might take an hour or two to find it, but it's in my bayonet pile somewhere!
It has always been an amazement to me how much people will spend for one. As a bayonet, they are pretty much worthless. Italy included them with the M38 short rifles they sold to Finland in 1938. Finns commonly threw them away as "not even good for opening cans of rations".
If you ever see one listed less than $100, you can make money on it. This one goes on a nice M38 short rifle I have. SW
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