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The Pattern 1907 bayonet was supplied with a simple leather scabbard fitted with a steel top-mount and chape, and usually carried from the belt by a simple frog. The Pattern 1907 bayonet attaches to the SMLE by a boss located below the barrel on the nose of the rifle and a mortise groove on the pommel of the bayonet. [2] [4]
The M1910 scabbard was covered in canvas with a leather tip to prevent the blade tip from tearing the material. A wire hook that engaged grommets on the cartridge belt replaced the belt-hanger. The M1910 scabbard was the primary scabbard used during the World War I. Earlier M1905 scabbards were modified by replacing the belt-hanger with a belt ...
The No. 4 bayonet was created to replace the current bayonet at the time in service which was the World War I vintage Pattern 1907 bayonet. [2] It was the result of the British search for a new bayonet to replace the Pattern 1907 which began just after World War I which came to the conclusion around the beginning of World War II that the best replacement for the pattern 1907 bayonet would be a ...
A sword bayonet design, the M1917 bayonet design was based on the British Pattern 1913 bayonet, itself derived from the Pattern 1907 bayonet, which incorporated a long 17 in (43 cm) blade. While designed primarily for the M1917 rifle, the bayonet was fitted for use on all the "trench" shotguns at the time. The M1917 bayonet, being a direct copy ...
The sword had a 31-inch (79 cm) blade (some being slightly longer), a cast brass hilt resembling the more expensive wire-wrapped leather grips, and a leather scabbard rather than the steel used by cavalry troopers and officers, although some makers, such as Emerson and Silver, issued a steel scabbard rather than leather to protect from wear.
The scabbard was brown leather with a brass chape and frog hook. Soon after the Admiralty took over the Coastguard cutlass was withdrawn and standard navy pattern weapons issued. The hilts of the Coastguard cutlasses were reused by the War Department; mounted to straight blades they were issued to privates of the Army Hospital Corps from 1857.
In 1898 the brass scabbard was replaced by a steel scabbard of the same form. [12] The pattern was also adopted for field marshals, royal equerries and lords lieutenant of counties, with only minor differences in decoration. The cross-guard écusson decoration of crossed baton and sabre is replaced by two crossed batons for field marshals ...
A total of 253 swords were produced by the Springfield Armory between 1868 and 1914 [15] with a subsequent order for scabbards in 1920. [15] Armory records show that between 1868 and 1920, the following numbers of swords were accepted: 1868 - 36; 1874 - 25; 1876 - 28; 1880 - 14; 1882 - 50; 1893 - 50; 1914 - 50; Total - 253; Plus 100 scabbards [15]