Saxon plug bayonet
I've collected plug bayonets for decades. Owning around 200 of them over the years. If you look in Roger Evan's book, The Plug Bayonet, a fair number of them are from my collection. This bayonet was offered to me for sale a few weeks ago. So I evaluated it at the time. If you will look at Toledo plug bayonets of the era in question, you can see for your self. This is a very classic Toledo style. They were producing plug bayonets on almost an assembly line basis. Picking particular cross guards and hilt styles that screwed together like this. The hilt and cross guard are clearly, Toledo as is the blade style. The blade etching is done pretty well and fairly convincing. The Weyersberg "Sollingen" engraving on the other had is frankly laughable. Taken as a whole, there is no question of this being authentic.
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