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Bayonet Identification Guide

Bayonet Terminology: Diagrams showing the basic terminology used to describe the bayonets and scabbards.

Bayonet Identification Guide

The following pages have pictures along with some basic information to aid in identification.  The list is by no means exhaustive, but does cover many of the bayonets encountered on the collector’s market today, as well as some unusual specimens. This guide is a work in progress.  There are 45 countries currently represented. I will continue adding countries as I acquire new pieces and find time to do the required programming.

Afghanistan

Belgium

Britain (WWII & Post-War)

Chile

Argentina

Brazil

British Bayonet Frogs

China

Australia

Britain (Pre WWII)

Bulgaria

Czechoslovakia

Austria

Britain (No. 4 Spike)

Canada

Denmark

Egypt

Germany (1933-1945)

Hungary

Japan

Finland

Germany (Post-War)

India

Korea (North)

France

Greece

Israel

Korea (South)

Germany (Imperial)

Guatemala

Italy

Mexico

Netherlands

Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

Siam (Thailand)

Switzerland

Norway

Romania

South Africa

Syria

Pakistan

Russia

Spain

Turkey

Poland

Serbia

Sweden

United States   (19th Century)

United States  (World War I)

Yugoslavia

 

 

United States  (World War II)

Unknown

 

 

United States  (Post-War)

 

 

 

Venezuela

 

 

 

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