Ersatz WW1 german bayonet for mosin rifle ? Helps needed

[Aries22]

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[Aries22]

Hello,
need help with this items, last owner told me it is some erzats bayonet for mosin rifle, but I never see it before...Thanks all for help

[John Allen]

ersatz bayonet

The former owner was right. The bayonet is a WW1 ersatz that was made in Austria and not Germany. It will fit the Russian M1891 Mosin-Nagant rifle and may also fit the earlier Russian Berdan rifles.

[Aries22]

Thank you very much for help ! Is somewhere more info about them on interenet ? Production, how comon or rare it is ? I collect ww2 so it is a little bit out of my knowledge...

[John Allen]

ersatz bayonet

The bayonets are very rare. They were either manufactured in very limited numbers or very few survived over the years for whatever reason. I collected bayonets for over thirty years and attended probably over 150 gun/militaria shows both as buyer and seller and knew many bayonet collectors and I never saw one. I have a book somewhere in storage that had an article about them otherwise I probably would not even know that they existed. I found an article on the net at mosin-nagant.net entitled "WW1 Bayonet Adaptations of Captured Model 1891 Three Line Rifles" that covers the bayonet but it has no pictures of one. At least it is a place to start your research. Hope this helps out.

[Aries22]

Thank you very much John ! Via your help I found few info about them, but ony wery little info on google... Last question I need it, what should be fair price for it ? I never see it for sale and I received some offer to trade it, but I have no idea about it...Thank you

[John Allen]

ersatz bayonet

Glad to be of some help. Sorry,but I do not have a clue what it might be worth and cannot even make an educated guess.