Pattern 1907 hooked Quillan bayonet

[RCS]

I would have to say that this is my favorite bayonet. It was found by a friend in the late 1990's at a
small gun show in Wisconsin mixed in with some Japanese bayonets, he bought right away. A few
years later he sold it to me.

Unit markings are DT over R.389 and the scabbard is AC '11 (A. Cooper) 4413344134441354413644137

[JB White]

Wow! Nice score. I wonder where that one was hiding for so long? If it had the Pall Mall on it then it could easily be attributed to an officer's purchase. But it doesn't.
I suppose it didn't come with a MkI scabbard and a P'08 frog, or you'd be showing off some very serious eye candy there. :)

[RCS]

JB, the scabbard is has a tear drop stud and dated 1911 ('11) from AC Cooper (Birmingham)

Do not know how a pre war bayonet in this condition could have survived.

Unit marking are 39th Foot Dorsetshire Regiment

[JB White]

Nice to hear you already traced it. I doubt that came in a cosmo packed surplus crate. Likely a bringback of sorts. Say....perhaps someone took it while taking the King's Shilling? Stayed hidden for a generation or two before the kids sold it to a Yank. ;)

Those small shows in WI. I always had good luck at those as a vendor. Not so much as a patron with flatlander/FIB ID's.