Bayonet

[Fiddleback]

I got this from my dad. No idea where he got it. He gave it to me to hang in my room when I was a boy. He had had a while, since he was a boy... I think. Anybody know more. I'll try and transcribe the text on the back of the blade for ya later today.

 

[Bill Marsh]

Don't know a thing about these, but it looks old. What language is the script?

 

[Fiddleback]

Its French. Rue D'Orleans .... 1877

And we're from Louisianna.

 

[jefptw]

Looks like a French Marine Bayonet -- 1878 model. That pretty much correlates with the date in the inscription.

Check out the following:

https://www.infantry.army.mil/museum/inside_tour/photo_tour/15_bayonet02.htm

James

 

[Kevin the grey]

That would take the wind out of anyones sails .

 

[Fiddleback]

Eureka, I think you've got it dude. Thanks.

 

[Yvsa]

Well it appears that you got your answer Andy. I was gonna guess it was French because of some other ones I had seen long ago.
They were similar but their blades were trefoil and quatrefoil shaped instead of square.
Stabbing bayonets and they were deadly in a very nasty way as your square one would also be.
When a stab wound is made by such an instrument the wound closes up when the instrument is withdrawn and so doesn't bleed freely to let out any poisonous bacteria that may be on the blade.
Such wounds are much more likely to become infected and fester causing lots of trauma in the wound.:barf:

 

[Fiddleback]

I'm gonna ask my dad where he got it. I don't know why I haven't after all these years. Dumbass I guess.

That sounds like a terrible way to die Yvsa. I was watching the movie Alexander, or whatever, and the surgeon had this skull chisel for putting soldiers out of their misery. I wonder when they stopped that practice? Anybody know?

 

[Bill Marsh]

Well it appears that you got your answer Andy. I was gonna guess it was French because of some other ones I had seen long ago.
They were similar but their blades were trefoil and quatrefoil shaped instead of square.
Stabbing bayonets and they were deadly in a very nasty way as your square one would also be.
When a stab wound is made by such an instrument the wound closes up when the instrument is withdrawn and so doesn't bleed freely to let out any poisonous bacteria that may be on the blade.
Such wounds are much more likely to become infected and fester causing lots of trauma in the wound.:barf:

WOW! Did not know that. Some of the Javanese lances / tombaks are like that with a narrow triangular blade.

I wondered why the nurses always use alcohol when giving an injection. Guess it is to keep surface bacteria from entering.

I read about an ape or chimp that was used for testing and they shot him too often with trank guns, he died of infections.