Knife bayonet for the 6.5 mm. M1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifle. This example has had the muzzle ring reamed out to allow mounting to the 8 mm. M1895 Steyr-Mannlicher Carbine.

Made at Oesterreichsche Waffenfabrik-Gesellschaft, Steyr, Austria.  According to Steyr records, 150,000 M1903 rifles were produced from 1906-1914.

Typical Austrian pattern bayonet, where cutting edge faces upward when fixed. This example has the figural of St. George slaying a dragon on the pommel. St. George is one of the most venerated saints of the Greek Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches, and is the patron saint of Greece.

According to Greek bayonet researcher, Giannis  Filippou, this example was modified in Bulgaria. The scabbard is Austrian and was made by Vogel & Nott of Hartberg, in the State of Styria, in Southeastern Austria.